News from Authors

Last night, Roger Robinson posted the following statement (and acknowledgements) on Facebook. We republish those comments here for the record.

All Praises To God for things that are Good.

British-Trinidadian poet Roger Robinson has won the T.S. Eliot Prize for his collection A Portable Paradise. This moving collection features a sequence of poems that reflect on the meanings of the Grenfell Tower fire and the Windrush Scandal.

The prize has been described by Sir Andrew Motion as 'the prize most poets want to win'. It is the only prize for poets judged solely by their peers.

Hear from decorated, Jamaican-born poet Shara McCallum in the Fierce Womxn Writing podcast, as she shares her writing advice and poems from her recent and forthcoming books.

The Guardian has published the new year's reading resolutions of writers including Patrice Lawrence and David Olusoga. Of her #ToBeRead pile, Patrice said,

Anton Nimblett has recently been interviewed by Lambda Literary. Check out the interview online.

Don't Stop the Carnival: Black Music in Britain by Kevin Le Gendre is the winner of Best History in the category of Best Historical Research in Recorded Roots or World Music in the 2019 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence.

The goal of the ARSC Awards for Excellence Program is to recognize and draw attention to the finest work now being published in the field of recorded sound research.