khadijah-ibrahiim-audio-only.mp3 Khadijah Ibrahiim was born in Leeds of Jamaican parentage. Educated at the University of Leeds, she is a literary activist, theatre maker and published writer, who combines’ inter-disciplinary art forms to re-imagine poetry as performance theatre. Hailed as one of Yorkshire’s most prolific poets by the BBC, her work appears in university journals and poetry…
amina-atiq-audio-only-1(1).mp3 Amina Atiq is a Yemeni-Scouse writer, performance artist & activist. Curious Mind Young Associate & BBC Words First Finalist 2019. Atiq’s work explores the conflict of her dual- identity of her heartland, Yemen and her homeland Liverpool. She is writing a one-woman poetry theatre play, revisiting her grandmother’s 1970’s Yemeni- British household. Currently a remote writer…
joelle-taylor-audio-only.mp3 Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, author and educator who completed a world tour with her last collection Songs My Enemy Taught Me. She founded SLAMbassadors, the UK national youth poetry slam championships, as well as the international spoken-word project Borderlines. She is widely anthologised, the author of 3 collections of poetry and is currently completing her debut…
Melanie Roberts interviews Dean Atta at Poet in the City’s You Don’t Own Me event
Pamela Mounter interviews Leeto Thale at Poet in the City’s Make That Change event on National Poetry Day 2018
Pamela Mounter interviews Bonnie Greer at Poet in the City’s Make That Change event on National Poetry Day 2018
Erica Gillingham interviews Sarah Howe at Poet in the City’s Matter of Stuff Poetry Promenade on National Poetry Day 2018
Melanie Roberts interviews Helen Mort at Poet in the City’s Meet A Scientist event held at the Francis Crick Institute on National Poetry Day 2018
Julija Gulbinovic interviews Jolade Olusanya at the National Poetry Day event In Transit
Julija Gulbinovic interviews Bridget Minamore at Poet in the City’s National Poetry Day event Journeys
Anthony Anaxagorou, Sabrina Mahfouz and Benin City at Poet in the City’s NPD event Journeys
Julija Gulbinovic interviews Sabrina Mahfouz at Poet in the City’s National Poetry Day event Journeys
Julija Gulbinovic interviews Benin City at Poet in the City’s National Poetry Day event Journeys