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Emily Dickinson: Success Is Counted Sweetest – Nikita Gill
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Emily Dickinson: Success Is Counted Sweetest – Nikita Gill

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Nikita Gill is a Belfast-born poet, writer and artist and has been described as ‘one of the most successful and exciting instapoets working today’.   This interview was conducted on 3 October 2020 at King’s Place by Penny Hughes at Emily Dickinson: Success Is Counted Sweetest as part of Poet in the City’s “Fail Better” 2020 season.

Moonwhile – Keisha Thompson
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Moonwhile – Keisha Thompson

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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 Exploring the complex world of her relationship with her socially withdrawn father, Moonwhile deconstructs the impact of mental health on family dynamic, particularly within…

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…

Ezra Pound: Making It New – Will Harris
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Ezra Pound: Making It New – Will Harris

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Poet in the City · Interview with Will Harris at Poet in the City’s Ezra Pound – Making It New event Will Harris is the author of Mixed-Race Superman (2018) – an essay examining resilience and self-creation, as well as a chapbook, All This is Implied, winner of the LRB Bookshop Poetry Pick for best pamphlet. A selection…