Hillview Inheritance Remembered
By Chris Harrison
By Chris Harrison
By Amy McAllister
Interview with Legna Rodriguez Iglesias and Seraphina Vick at A Little Body Are Many Parts event
deconstructingempire-219-_lintonwesleystephens.mp3 Linton Wesley Stephens was born in Chester and grew up on the Wirral. He began playing the Bassoon at the age of 16. He is the sub-principal bassoon with Chineke! Orchestra with whom he has performed at the proms and Wigmore hall. He also enjoys varied freelance career. Recent appearances include BBC Philharmonic, Hallé…
deconstructingempire-219-_sonadatta.mp3 Dr Sona Datta is a curator, writer, and broadcaster of South Asian art from Medieval to Modern. She is a 2019/20 Clore Leadership Fellow. This interview was conducted on 6th December 2019 at St Paul’s Cathedral by Ed Walker at Deconstructing Empire: The Great British Fantasy? as part of the Poet in the City Producers programme.
deconstructing-empire-219-anthonyanaxagorou.mp3 Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Granta, Ambit, The Adroit Journal and The Rialto. His work has appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts. His second…
Poet in the City · Interview with Glenn Patterson at Poet in the City’s Seamus Heaney – Blackbird event Glenn Patterson is a Belfast born writer. He has made documentaries for the BBC and has published his collected journalistic writings as Lapsed Protestant (2006). He has written plays for Radio 3 and Radio 4, and…
Tom Deveson interviews Vona Groarke at Poet in the City’s Seamus Heaney – Blackbird event
Tom Deveson interviews Roy Foster at Poet in the City’s Seamus Heaney – Blackbird event
Penny Hughes interviews Narguess Farzad at Poet in the City’s Rumi – The Universe in Motion event
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
Kate Murrant interviews Bumi Thomas at May Ayim: Borderless & Brazen, an event held as part of Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival 2019
Kate Murrant interviews Gboyega Odubanjo at May Ayim: Borderless and Brazen, an event held at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival
Jay Hepburn interviews Keisha Thompson at Moonwhile, an event held at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival 2019
Penny Hughes interviews Belinda Zhawi of MA Moyo at A Daughter’s Geography, an event held at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival
Hillview Poetic Histories is an innovative collaboration between residents of Hillview Estate and Poet in the City uncovering Hillview’s story as a self-run housing collective that survived in the face of austerity and eviction notices, influencing short life and cooperative housing movements in the UK since the 1970s.
poetrylyricsfestival-219-moonwhile-keishathompson.mp3 Ricocheting between themes of love, masculinity, forgiveness and cultural displacement, poet Keisha Thompson’s Moonwhile is a vividly imagined Afrofuturistic performance that ripples with looped sound and sweeping waves of Neo-Soul. Exploring the complex world of her relationship with her socially withdrawn father, Moonwhile deconstructs the impact of mental health on family dynamic, particularly within…
Billie Manning interviews Karen McCarthy Woolf at Poet in the City’s Poetica Electronica, an event held at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival 2019
Jack Wright interviews Lavinia Greenlaw at The Importance of Music to Girls, an event held at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival
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….
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…
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…
Spirit de la Mare interviews Sandeep Parmar at Poet in the City’s Fatimah Asghar – If They Come For Us event
Spirit de la Mare interviews Fatima Asghar at Poet in the City’s Fatimah Asghar – If They Come For Us event
Poet in the City · Interview with Sukina Pilgrim at Poet in the City’s Rumi – The Universe in Motion event Sukina Pilgrim is a Spoken-Word and Hip-Hop artist, Workshop Facilitator and Event Organiser. She makes up one half of the Muslim female Hip Hop duo, Poetic Pilgrimage and has performed across the UK, Europe,…
A Poet in the City Producers event in collaboration with St Paul’s Cathedral and Westminster Abbey exploring how colonial nostalgia shapes what it means to be British in the age of Brexit.
Jeffery Sugarman interviews Dr. Devorah Baum at Poet in the City’s Sam Sax event