'In truth, Carnival’s proudest and most ingenious veterans, wielders of wire and whip and feather and bois, will all tell you: you must be in the mas to know it. You can be in the mas your whole life, and never know it in full,' writes Shivanee Ramlochan in this electrifying article for The Poetry School's 'How I Did It' series by Forward Prize-nominated writers. The series focuses on the process behind one of the poems in Shivanee's Felix Dennis First Collection-shortlisted title, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press).
What does success look like for arts in criminal justice settings? is the bold new paper from the National Criminal Justice Arts Alliance (NCJAA), commissioned by Arts Council England in 2017, highlights the findings from a series of roundtables which considered the titular question. The paper has special relevance to writers and artists working in criminal justice settings, such as writers-in-residence at prisons.
Find below the full list of Filigree events and workshops. We'll be adding new dates as and when they get confirmed.
Kadija Sesay & Friends: (Post) National Poetry Day event with readings from Filigree
8 October Barbican Library, London 7-9pm (6.30pm for refreshments)
Maggie Harris, Selena Rodrigues, Michael Campbell and Roy McFarlane
Book online.
Save the Date!
Launch event in London: 23 November (details TBC)
Filigree is the second anthology of contemporary Black British poetry published by Peepal Tree Press, a leader in Caribbean and Black British literature. It follows in the footsteps of previous successful anthologies: Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry (edited by Kwame Dawes) and Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories (edited by Jacob Ross).
The Poetry Foundation has written of Vahni Capildeo's interview of Loretta Collins Klobah in the July-August PN Review, about Ricantations (Peepal Tree Press, UK, 2018) and her work more generally.
The Marlborough Theatre and Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts are delighted to announce two new commissions for BAME LGBTQ+ artists to create a new 15-minute performance inspired by Audre Lorde!
Following on from 2017’s successful Thinking Queer: Bloomsbury Group, TMT and ACCA are excited to present another night of reflection, resistance, poetics and power, this time to celebrate the work of trailblazing writer, thinker and activist Audre Lorde.
'Who would I be without my misery? Keeping calm about Black life has never remained an option,' writes Rashad Mubarak in his essay on 'The Trauma of Being A Black Writer'.
Vahni Capildeo reflects on her Walking Cities walk with Dionne Brand in Toronto for the British Council.
