Borderless and Brazen – Gboyega Odubanjo
Kate Murrant interviews Gboyega Odubanjo at May Ayim: Borderless and Brazen, an event held at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival
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
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…
Poet in the City · Interview with Matthew Beaumont at Baudelaire – Botanist of the Sidewalk Matthew Beaumont is co-director of the UCL Urban Laboratory and Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the UCL Department of English. Matthew is the author of Utopia Ltd. (Haymarket, 2009), The Spectre of Utopia (Peter Lang, 2012) and Nightwalking (Verso, 2015). As well as being an…
Poet in the City · Interviews with Dr. Devorah Baum at Poet in the City’s Sam Sax event Dr Devorah Baum is Associate Professor in English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Southampton. She is the author of two books, Feeling Jewish (Yale University Press) and The Jewish Joke (Profile), and co-director of the creative documentary feature film, The New…
Featuring Dr Ruth Padel, the Reverend Lucy Winkett, James Massiah and Niles Hailstones.
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,…