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Kubla Khan
In the next of our series of poetry films in collaboration with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation, poet Jo Clement reads 'Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The film is directed by Savannah Acquah.
Sunila Galappatti’s cultural highlights
The dramaturg on the Akram Khan's Chotto Desh, Zarlasht Halaimzai on being a refugee, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s seascapes, Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats, Fats Domino On a Slow Boat to China and long distance trains.
The Hebridean Crab Apple
Inspired by the mystery of a crab apple tree discovered on an uninhabited outer-Hebridean island, Marjorie Lotfi reads her poem, The Hebridean Crab Apple. The film is directed by Savannah Acquah.
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Robin Paine
Robin Paine eventually settled in Edinburgh having experienced the shock of moving from Kenya to London where she felt completely invisible.
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Guest Edition
Malcolm X, by any means necessary
Edited by Colin Grant
Before his assassination in 1965, Malcolm X, the spokesman for the Nation of Islam, inspired adoration and fear in the US with his powerful argument for self defence ‘by any means necessary’. For the centenary of Malcom X’s birth, writers in this guest edition explore his legacy as a resistance leader.
All About Love
Mickalene Thomas's exhibition in praise of black women's beauty
Dream Count
In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s latest novel, the path to desire is fraught with danger
Sister Midnight
Karan Kandhari's bizarre and humorous film breaks with the strictly gender-defined tropes of Bollywood
In the Shadow of the Cypress
An Oscar-winning film's exploration of fractured familial relationships in post-war Iran
Theft
Abdulrazak Gurnah's tale of a young Zanzibari trio caught between their dreams and their reality.
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Raoul Peck’s startling film about the South African photographer Ernest Cole
All We Imagine As Light
Payal Kapadia's poetic, meditative film of Mumbai’s working-class women and their resilience
Champion
The stage is set like a boxing ring, but the real battlefield is the home of the Siddique family
What went wrong with Emilia Pérez?
Why an operatic, oscar-nominated musical set in Mexico with a trans woman was side-lined.
Remembering Mario Vargas Llosa
The Peruvian writer whose pen was his weapon of choice
Forests Where Past & Present Meet
A return to Poland and remembrance of WW2 inspires compassion for today's refugees.
Bread Loaf
Nick Makoha talks with the directors of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference about creating a writers' utopia.
The Empire in miniature
Reflecting on the centenary of the British Empire Exhibition in Wimbledon, the imperial Disneyland
Chester Himes
Dream worlds, places where the importance of belief and hope chafe against the urgency of reality.
Events
Featured event
WritersMosaic’s retreat in collaboration with the Hawthornden Foundation gets underway
Writers chosen for the WritersMosaic/Hawthornden Foundation retreat in Shropshire begin work at Arvon's The Hurst.
WritersMosaic Live
Book now for the Hay-on-Wye Festival in May. Find us at the Bradford Lit Festival in June, the British Library and the South Bank Centre in July, Edinburgh International Book Festival in August and Ilkley Lit Festival in October.
Kubla Khan
In the next of our series of poetry films in collaboration with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation, poet Jo Clement reads, 'Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The film is directed by Savannah Acquah.
Right Now I’m Standing
In the next of our new series of poetry films in collaboration with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, poet Jason Allen-Paisant reads his own poem, 'Right Now I’m Standing'. Set in a woodland in the shadow of a plantation house, the film brings into focus Allen-Paisant’s reflections on Blackness and landscape. The film is directed by Rob Akin.
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The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.
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