Lullaby Too Rough – Sarah Howe
Lydia O’Ryan interviews Sarah Howe at Poet in the City’s Lullaby Too Rough event
Lydia O’Ryan interviews Sarah Howe at Poet in the City’s Lullaby Too Rough event
Pamela Mounter inteviews Paapa Essiedu at Poet in the City’s Lorca – Poet in New York event
What happens to a dream deferred? An exhilarating evening of poetry, music and dance celebrating an iconic Harlem poet in partnership with East London Dance and Kinetika Bloco.
Julija Gulbinovic interviews Basel and Emily Churchill Zaraa at the National Poetry Day event In Transit
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…
Julija Gulbinovic interview Jackie Oates and Scott William Albert Hartley at The Land Listeners, an event held as part of Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics festival
Julija Gulbinovic interviews JJ Bola at the National Poetry Day event In Transit