Poet in the City · Interview with Sukina Pilgrim at Poet in the City’s Rumi – The Universe in Motion event Sukina Pilgrim is a Spoken-Word and Hip-Hop artist, Workshop Facilitator and Event Organiser. She makes up one half of the Muslim female Hip Hop duo, Poetic Pilgrimage and has performed across the UK, Europe,…
Poet in the City · Interviews with Dr. Devorah Baum at Poet in the City’s Sam Sax event Dr Devorah Baum is Associate Professor in English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Southampton. She is the author of two books, Feeling Jewish (Yale University Press) and The Jewish Joke (Profile), and co-director of the creative documentary feature film, The New…
Poet in the City · Interview with Glenn Patterson at Poet in the City’s Seamus Heaney – Blackbird event Glenn Patterson is a Belfast born writer. He has made documentaries for the BBC and has published his collected journalistic writings as Lapsed Protestant (2006). He has written plays for Radio 3 and Radio 4, and…
Part of our dinnertime poetry sessions during Covid-19
joelle-taylor-audio-only.mp3 Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, author and educator who completed a world tour with her last collection Songs My Enemy Taught Me. She founded SLAMbassadors, the UK national youth poetry slam championships, as well as the international spoken-word project Borderlines. She is widely anthologised, the author of 3 collections of poetry and is currently completing her debut…
Poet in the City · Interview with Dr. Gail Crowther at Poet in the City’s Sylvia Plath – Life Between the Lines event Gail Crowther is a freelance writer, researcher, and academic currently working on a number of solo and collaborative projects. Ongoing work deals with Sylvia Plath and archival studies; examining the notion of…