Vices and Verses – Katie Melua
Imogen Hamilton-Jones interviews Katie Melua at Vices & Verses, an event held at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival.
Imogen Hamilton-Jones interviews Katie Melua at Vices & Verses, an event held at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival.
Tom Deveson interviews Diana Souhami at Poet in the City’s Ladies of the Left Bank event
Tom Deveson interviews Will Montgomery at Poet in the City’s O’Hara: In the Heart of Noise event
langston-hughes-dreams-deferred-kayo-chingonyi.mp3 The epicentre of Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes’ rhythmic, urgent poetry empowered a generation of new writers, with an aftershock that still reverberates today. His work was full of music and dance, and described the Black American experience over decades. Characterised by narratives of empowerment and a belief in humanity, he celebrated Black identity in…
Tom Deveson interviews Don Paterson at the Don Paterson & PJ Harvey event held as part of Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival
Poet in the City · Interview with Professor Helen Abbott at Baudelaire – Botanist of the Sidewalk As Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, Helen Abbott specialises in nineteenth-century French poetry and music. Her research explores ways of writing about word-music relationships in poetic language, in critical theories, and using digital methodologies. Her…
Julija Gulbinovic interviews Jolade Olusanya at the National Poetry Day event In Transit