What Is An Activist? – Amina Atiq
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What Is An Activist? – Amina Atiq

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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…

What is an Activist? – Joelle Taylor
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What is an Activist? – Joelle Taylor

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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…

Sylvia Plath: Life Between the Lines – Erica Wagner
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Sylvia Plath: Life Between the Lines – Erica Wagner

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Poet in the City · Interview with Erica Wagner at Poet in the City’s Sylvia Plath – Life Between the Lines event Born in New York, Erica moved to London in the 80’s to live and study. She is a former Literary Editor at The Times and her first book was a collection of short stories,…

Sylvia Plath: Life Between the Lines – Dr Gail Crowther
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Sylvia Plath: Life Between the Lines – Dr Gail Crowther

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Poet in the City · Interview with Dr. Gail Crowther at Poet in the City’s Sylvia Plath – Life Between the Lines event Gail Crowther is a freelance writer, researcher, and academic currently working on a number of solo and collaborative projects. Ongoing work deals with Sylvia Plath and archival studies; examining the notion of…

Sylvia Plath: Life Between the Lines – Mona Arshi
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Sylvia Plath: Life Between the Lines – Mona Arshi

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Poet in the City · Interview with Mona Arshi at Poet in the City’s Sylvia Plath – Life Between the Lines event Mona Arshi worked as a Human rights lawyer at Liberty before she started writing poetry. Her debut collection ‘Small Hands’ won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2015. Her poems and…

Hidden by Clouds – Gerður Kristný
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Hidden by Clouds – Gerður Kristný

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A tribute to all women murdered by violent men, Icelandic poet Gerður Kristný presents Drápa, a story of modern-day Nordic crime reimagined through Old Viking Skaldic verse, musically accompanied by members of ALDAorchestra. On a frozen January day in Reykjavik, 1988, 26-year-old Gréta Birgisdóttir was strangled to death by her husband Bragi Ólafsson. Ten years on,…

Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider – Chardine Taylor Stone
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Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider – Chardine Taylor Stone

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Poet in the City · Interview with Chardine Taylor Stone at Poet in the City’s Audre Lorde – Sister Outsider event Chardine Taylor Stone is an award winning cultural producer Black feminist activist and writer. She was featured in The Voice newspaper as one of the Women Who Rocked the World in 2015, Diva Magazine’s  LGBT Power…

Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider – Bridget Minamore
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Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider – Bridget Minamore

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Poet in the City · Interview with Bridget Minamore at Poet in the City’s Audre Lorde – Sister Outsider event Bridget Minamore is a writer from and based in south-east London. She has written with the National Theatre’s New Views programme and the Royal Opera House, and has an English degree from University College London….

Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider – Akwugo Emejulu
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Audre Lorde: Sister Outsider – Akwugo Emejulu

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Poet in the City · Interview with Akwugo Emejulu at Poet in the City’s Audre Lorde – Sister Outsider event Before entering academia, Akwugo worked in a variety of grassroots roles—as a community organiser, a trade union organiser and a participatory action researcher—in both the United States and in Britain. She joined the Department of Sociology…

Celebrating the Islamic World – Sadiqa Juma, Saffana Monajed and Najwa Umran
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Celebrating the Islamic World – Sadiqa Juma, Saffana Monajed and Najwa Umran

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Poet in the City · Interview with Sadiqa Juma, Saffana Monajed and Najwa Umran at Celebrating the Islamic World Saffana Monajed is a mathematician and creative. Alongside working on multicultural marketing as a 9-5, Monajed co-founded Project Ribcage, a series of interviews with muslim women proffessionals to elevate the self image of muslim women in…

Celebrating The Islamic World – Rakaya Esime Fetuga
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Celebrating The Islamic World – Rakaya Esime Fetuga

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Poet in the City · Interview with Rakaya Esime Fetuga at Celebrating the Islamic World Rakaya Esime Fetuga is a Muslim writer from London of dual West African heritage. Her work joins conversations on women, faith and identity. Rakaya won the Spread the Word Poetry Competition in 2017, was shortlisted for the Out-spoken Poetry Prize…

Celebrating the Islamic World – Asma Elbadawi
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Celebrating the Islamic World – Asma Elbadawi

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Poet in the City · Interview with Asma Elbadawi at Celebrating the Islamic World Asma Elbadawi is a spoken word poet and Visual Artist born in Sudan and raised in England. Asma’s dual cultural heritage deeply influences her creativity, paired with a focus on international development and female empowerment. Asma is the Words First Leeds Finalist….

The Dream of a Common Language: The Women Poets Who Changed 1968
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The Dream of a Common Language: The Women Poets Who Changed 1968

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From the anti-war and civil rights movements to feminist and LGBT activism, this series puts focus on the women poets who played a crucial role in the seismic social and political change of 1968, 50 years on: Maya Angelou and Adrienne Rich.

Baudelaire: Botanist of the Sidewalk – Lauren Elkin
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Baudelaire: Botanist of the Sidewalk – Lauren Elkin

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Poet in the City · Interview with Lauren Elkin at Baudelaire – Botanist of the Sidewalk Charles Baudelaire was the original flâneur poet, embodying the spirit of the curious wanderer. One hundred and fifty years after his death, join Poet in the City and the Rimbaud and Verlaine Foundation as we traverse the psychogeography of…