Our Brighton Filigree event was on a very blustery Sat 16 March, nevertheless we had a lovely, attentive, and supportive audience and a wonderful evening of readings from contributors Fawzia Muradali Kane, Nandita Ghose, Akila Richards and Hugh Stulz.
Each began their set by selecting and reading another Filigree poet as well as sharing their own works. Thanks to our talented readers for an inspiring and enjoyable evening, New Writing South for the venue and refreshments, and our audience for braving the winds.
Poet Malika Booker has joined Manchester Metropolitan's Manchester Writing School.
Malika has joined Manchester Writing School as Lecturer in Creative Writing.
Booker is an international writer of poetry, radio and theatre and was the inaugural Poet-In-Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Her first poetry collection ‘Pepper Seed’ was longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre prize in 2014.
On Wednesday 20 March, Ledbury Poetry Festival will launch a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign aiming to raise the funds to welcome three poets to the UK: Enrique Winter from Chile, Laura Wittner from Argentina and Shivanee Ramlochan from Trinidad.
Thanks to Rommi Smith, who found this lovely profile of our very own Una Marson at the BBC. Una was the author we highlighted this year for International Women's Day, and continues to be an appealing historic figure to many. Her poetry is a highlight of the Caribben Modern Classics series.
Vic Motune writes, 'Just how important a figure she was is illustrated in a 1942 photograph as she prepares for a broadcast. Sitting next to her is the famous British poet T. S. Eliot while literary giant George Orwell peers over Marson’s shoulder.'
Two contributors to the INSCRIBE Writers anthology Filigree: Contemporary Black British Poetry have been nominated for the Jhalak Prize: Roy McFarlane and Raymond Antrobus.
The 2019 longlist is:
Roma Agrawal, Built : The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures (Bloomsbury)
Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of the Empire (Two Roads)
Raymond Antrobus, The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins)
Kwame Dawes and Ishion Hutchinson have been announced as 2019 recipients of Windham-Campbell awards worth $165,000 each! The Windham-Campbell prizes are global English-language awards that call attention to literary achievement and provide writers with the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns.
Peepal Tree Press is beyond proud to have published the debut collections of both poets, and Kwame Dawes now holds the role of associate poetry editor at Peepal Tree, and ‘discovered’ Ishion Hutchinson.
To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, why not explore Edgar Nkosi White's book of essays and memories: Deported to Paradise. Montserrat, of course, has many people with Irish roots, who will most likely be celebrating this weekend.
About the book
The Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars has begun a YouTube channel, to promote the organisation to young and emergent scholars and writers.
Vahni Capildeo has written the essay 'Dancing Duppy: Notes from two workshops by Anthony McNeill' for Axon Journal.
