Heartbreakers – Max Wallis
Pamela Mounter interviews Max Wallis at Poet in the City’s Heartbreakers event
Pamela Mounter interviews Max Wallis at Poet in the City’s Heartbreakers event
Pamela Mounter inteviews Paapa Essiedu at Poet in the City’s Lorca – Poet in New York event
Axel Kacoutié interviews Diran Adebayo at Langston Hughes – Dreams Deferred
Tom Deveson interviews Diana Souhami at Poet in the City’s Ladies of the Left Bank event
Julija Gulbinovic interviews John Hegley at The Further Adventures Of M. Robinet
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…
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…