Poetry and Lyrics Festival 2018 – Richard Scott
Oliver Fallon interviews Richard Scott at his event at Poet in the City’s 2018 Poetry and Lyrics Festival
Oliver Fallon interviews Richard Scott at his event at Poet in the City’s 2018 Poetry and Lyrics Festival
Erica Gillingham interviews Otis Mensah and producer Billy Manning at Speak Your Truth, an event curated by Poet in the City’s Producers Scheme at Poet in the City’s 2018 Poetry and Lyrics Festival
Melanie Roberts interviews Michael de Souza at Rastamouse Introduces Lil’Bruv, an event at Poet in the City’s 2018 Poetry and Lyrics Festival
Erica Gillingham interviews Danez Smith at Don’t Call Us Dead: Danez Smith
Pamela Mounter interviews Sarah Lenton at Poet in the City’s The Revolution Will Not Be Televised event
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.
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 Exploring the complex world of her relationship with her socially withdrawn father, Moonwhile deconstructs the impact of mental health on family dynamic, particularly within…