Spotlight
Nick Makoha in conversation with Hannah Lowe
Nick Makoha has been inspired by the work of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat for his latest poetry. Makoha talks to fellow poet Hannah Lowe about the roots and life of the poems in The New Carthaginians.
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Amanda Vilanova’s cultural highlights
Amanda Vilanova on Esquina El Watusi, Able Noise's High Tide, singer-songwriter, Mima, Al Qué Quiere by William Carlos William and Akram Khan’s Giselle
What We Leave We Carry
Anne Tristine Nguyen
Anne Tristine Nguyen recalls her remarkable journey from a slum in Saigon, Vietnam to a Scottish castle.
Guest Edition
Cybernetics and ghosts: the digital future of writing
Edited by Michael Salu
"This guest edition is a thought experiment inspired by Italo Calvino’s 1967 essay Cybernetics and Ghosts, to reflect on the expansive role technology plays in our lives and in literature today."
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Mohammad Rasoulof's tale of a family’s unraveling in the modern-day Iranian regime
A Good House
Amy Jephta’s satire on modern South African social mores
Hard Truths
Mike Leigh's film depicts an ordinary black British family with a unlikeable but magnetic protagonist
Encountering African Art Afresh
The Museum of Contemporary Art Al-Maaden and Marrakesh’s Cultural Heritage
In Search of Tina
How J.H. Lynch's painting became a staple of the West Indian front room
Albanian road trip
Two Serbian writers in Albania challenge the history of hostility, finding friends not foes
Cristina Rivera Garza: Re-membering Violence
Rivera Garza’s fiction Interrogates the acts of violence in Mexico
King Herod in Florida
A journey through the physical and literary landscape of Zora Neale Hurston's life reveal insights into her posthumously published novel
Furious Flower
A poetry conference at James Madison University celebrates trends in Black literature
Events
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Malcolm X: By any means necessary
For the centenary of Malcolm X’s birth, WritersMosaic, in collaboration with the British Library and the Eccles Institute, brings together writers and performers to explore Malcolm X's legacy as a resistance leader.
Walking in the Wake
A black-and-white film after Christine Sharpe’s In the Wake On Blackness and Being (2016), Walking in the Wake was produced for the Estuary Festival (2021) in collaboration between the founding WritersMosaic board member Michael McMillan, Elsa James and Dubmorphology (Gary Stewart and Trevor Mathison).McMillan’s voiceover commentary meditates on the ebb and flow of the River Thames and the black presence in the English countryside, as we follow twelve black pilgrims walking along the Estuary passing sites of Empire.
Alford Dalrymple Gardner: remembered
Alford Dalrymple Gardner, a Windrush generation pioneer, died last week. In 2023, he visited the Edinburgh International Book Festival to discuss his memoir, Finding Home, with his son, Howard, Lisa Williams and Colin Grant. This film is courtesy of the EIBF archive.
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