Heartbreakers – Mariah Gale
Pamela Mounter interviews Mariah Gale at Poet in the City’s Heartbreakers event
Pamela Mounter interviews Mariah Gale at Poet in the City’s Heartbreakers 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…
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…
Axel Kacoutié interviews Diran Adebayo at Langston Hughes – Dreams Deferred
Oliver Fallon interviews Oscar-winning lyricist Don Black at Vices and Verses, an event held at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival.
Ariel Silverman interviews Nick Cope at Putting Paws Into Poetry, an event at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival
Tom Deveson interviews Mark Ford at Poet in the City’s O’Hara: In the Heart of Noise event