O’Hara: In the Heart of Noise – Will Montgomery
Tom Deveson interviews Will Montgomery at Poet in the City’s O’Hara: In the Heart of Noise event
Tom Deveson interviews Will Montgomery at Poet in the City’s O’Hara: In the Heart of Noise 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…
Julija Gulbinovic interviews John Reid at The Further Adventures Of M. Robinet
Oliver Fallon interviews Gemma Weekes at Poet in the City’s Basquiat Event
Poet in the City · Interview with Professor Helen Abbott at Baudelaire – Botanist of the Sidewalk As Professor of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham, Helen Abbott specialises in nineteenth-century French poetry and music. Her research explores ways of writing about word-music relationships in poetic language, in critical theories, and using digital methodologies. Her…
Poet in the City · Dylan Read reading Les Aveugles by Baudelaire Dylan Read was born in Paris and grew-up in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. At university, Dylan performed and co-directed an extensive repertoire of theatre and performance projects. As a keen musician, he also scored a critically acclaimed version of The Caucasian…
Melanie Roberts interviews Tim Garland at Play That Thing, an event at Poet in the City’s Poetry and Lyrics Festival