Caribbean Poets Calling
2 November 2022, 5.30pm
Grimond Lecture Theatre 2, University of Kent
Free
Book online
We're delighted to invite you to this fantastic evening of poetry. We have three distinguished Caribbean poets reading both past and new work. There will also be a Q&A session with the poets at the end.
Comrade Sak - Shapurji Saklatvala MP 1922-2022 Centenary Talk
3pm, Sunday 30 October 2022, Units 23-24, Southside Shopping Centre, SW18 4TF
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/comrade-sak-shapurji-saklatvala-mp-1922-2022-centenary-talk-tickets-444621925147Book online
In support of her latest collection No Ruined Stone, Shara McCallum is reading online--meaning you can take part wherever you are in the world.
November 2-11, No Ruined Stone UK Reading Tour
Visual Education and Art Education: a comparison with Stanley Greaves
Tuesday 11 October 2022, 11am Guyana
Zoom (please register in advance)
Peepal Tree poet Kadija Sesay joins SI Leeds Literary Prize Readers’ Choice award-winner Kit de Waal, Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Ashleigh Nugent, Hannah Azieb Pool, Jacqueline Roy, Lissa Evans, Judith Bryan, Roosevelt Montas, Katherine May and Tomiwa Owolade, among others at The Reader's Gravity Festival.
Gravity is a festival for our times that fuses great writing with intimate conversations about life’s ups and downs.
This year's BVI Literary Festival will be taking place 3-6 November on Tortola with the theme "Unspoken. Unwritten. Unknown."
You can expect to find such writers as Kei Miller, Tiphanie Yanique, Tobias Buckell, Desiree C Bailey, Sharma Taylor, Ana Portnoy Brimmer, Andre Bagoo, Derron Sandy, Celeste Rita Baker, Yona Deshommes, Hon. Dennis Lister, and Celeste Rita Baker.
Calabash Presents
Saturday 8th October 2022 11am to 7pm
Leeds Central Library, Leeds LS1 3AB
As part of Jamaica Society Leeds' Out of Many Festival, Jamaica’s much-loved Calabash International Literary Festival brings a hint of Treasure Beach vibe to Leeds for an unmissable, day-long literary take-over of the library curated by Calabash co-founders Kwame Dawes and Justine Henzell.
Bocas UK 2022 at the British Library
Where: Entrance Hall, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB
When: Sat 29 Oct 2022, 11am to 8.30pm
Price: £30 / £26 (senior/60+) / £15 (18-25s, students, unemployed, disabled) / £10 (online)
Enquiries: +44 (0)1937 546546 / boxoffice@bl.uk
Find out more on the British Library website.
Rommi Smith: Notes from a Residency
Wednesday 28 September, 7-8pm BST (UTC+1), Online
https://wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/rommi-smith-notes-from-a-residency/Free
Out of Many x Peepal Tree Press brings you the very best Jamaican writers to our regular Peepal Tree Book Club. See the events below and check out Eventbrite for more details.
