Poetry and Lyrics Festival – Nãnci Correia
Erica Gillingham interviews Nãnci Correia at her event at Poet in the City’s 2018 Poetry and Lyrics Festival
Erica Gillingham interviews Nãnci Correia at her event at Poet in the City’s 2018 Poetry and Lyrics Festival
Featuring Travis Alabanza, Poppy Noor and Sophia Thakur.
From the anti-war and civil rights movements to feminist and LGBT activism, this series puts focus on the women poets who played a crucial role in the seismic social and political change of 1968, 50 years on: Maya Angelou and Adrienne Rich.
Melanie Roberts interviews Dean Atta at Poet in the City’s You Don’t Own Me event
Pamela Mounter interviews Bonnie Greer at Poet in the City’s Make That Change event on National Poetry Day 2018
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 Exploring the complex world of her relationship with her socially withdrawn father, Moonwhile deconstructs the impact of mental health on family dynamic, particularly within…
Pamela Mounter interviews Simon Mole at Poet in the City’s Between the Storeys event, part of the Smithfield 150 Festival