View Minoli Salgado, author of A Little Dust on the Eyes and winner of the inaugural SI Leeds Literary Prize, as she reads at Poetry Parnassus. Held at the Southbank, Poetry Parnassas was part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad, where Minoli performed on behalf of Sri Lanka.
Vahni Capildeo, author of Utter, has produced a film of 'A Legend' after Nicholas Laughlin. Give the film a watch, listen to Vahni reading the poem and let us know on social media what you thought. There's always something special, we think, about a poet reading their work, which often brings to life the words in a way that print alone can't. See if you feel the same way.
In celebration of Emancipation Day and in remembrance of our shared history across the diasporas, we're sharing the poem 'On Reading Thistlewood's Diary' by Ann-Margaret Lim. You can check out the poem online or by grabbing a copy of Ann-Margaret's forthcoming collection Kingston Buttercup.
Inscribe-supported writer Maya Chowdhry is off to the Arran Poetry Adventure and will use the time to finalise the manuscript for her forthcoming chapbook, Fossil.
She has recently contributed 'Tea with Roget' for an augmented reality app, Beacons for Science, as part of European City of Science, Manchester. Visitors can download the free app during the festival, or have afternoon tea in the Portico Library on 28 July.
Check out John Lyons reading from his CLPE (CLiPPA) Award-shortlisted collecting for children, Dancing in the Rain.
Following his nomination for the CLPE Award (CLiPPA), John Lyons spoke with CLPE about his inspirations as a poet, which poems he remembers from his childhood, and why poetry is important, among other things. You can watch the videos below.
Renowned poets Malika Booker, Kayo Chingonyi and Karen McCarthy Woolf have collaborated with dancers/choreographers Sean Graham, Ella Mesma and Leon Rose, to produce three dance poetry films. The films were created for Dancing with Words.
Malika's poem 'Sweet Liquor' is taken from her Booker prize winning collection Pepper Seed (Peepal Tree Press) and explores the world of the soca fete.
The Forward Prizes jury, chaired by Malika Booker, has shortlisted Wife by Tiphanie Yanique for the 2016 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection.
Literary activity is abuzz this April, as Paper Based Bookshop gears up for the sixth annual NGC Bocas Lit Fest! It's an exciting time for writers, readers and all those who love books.
On Saturday 23 April, at 4.30 pm, the eve of Bocas, the bookshop's third official Evening of Tea and Readings for 2016 will be held.
The reading also marks Paper Based's 29th birthday!
Four writers will read at the Paper Based podium:
Inscribe’s Maya Chowdhry recently appeared at the launch of the Poetic Places app to give a talk on her Tales from the Towpath project.
The app, which is being championed by the British Library and TIME/IMAGE, aspires to give a renewed sense of place, to bring together written works, images and sounds to mean more than they do alone, and to bring literature into people’s everyday life in unexpected moments, allowing users to enjoy poetry and literature written about particular locations.
