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
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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.
Please circulate widely. Shared here for information only (this isn't a Peepal Tree project).
Race, Gender, Austerity Hope and Resistance strategy, organisation and change
An open call for intersectional articles, images, photography, artwork, graphic novel extracts, satirical cartoons and poetry by women.
On the themes of race, gender, austerity, hope and resistance - strategy, organisation and change.
Ricantations by Loretta Collins Klobah has been selected as a National Poetry Day recommendation for 2018.
The National Poetry Day Book Group also added its notes on the book for a readers' guide targeting book clubs, students and teachers. The book will also be distributed to book groups in association with NPD partner, The Reading Agency.
Shivanee Ramlochan reviews Ricantations and Kitch for Caribbean Beat.
'A sense of the inner wildness, the “untameness” that is always beneath the surface of people and places, is what drives many of the poems. In the process of writing and editing Doe Songs, I tried to access that inner wildness and to learn to see it in everything, to acknowledge that the domestic and the wild, the gentle and the feral are bound together so closely in all living things and places,' says Danielle.
