Alternate Realities – Crispin Best
Julija Gulbinovic interviews Crispin Best at Poet in the City’s Alternate Realities event, part of Kings Place Festival
Julija Gulbinovic interviews Crispin Best at Poet in the City’s Alternate Realities event, part of Kings Place Festival
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,…
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…
Julija Gulbinovic interviews Francis Leviston at Time Unwrapped – Memento
TV Smith reading his poem “We Stand Alone” at the 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….
Penny Rimbaud reading his poem “A Prayer” at the Poetry and Lyrics Festival