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Poetry series

In Conversation

Jarred McGinnis: 'I made a contract with the reader to be honest with them'

In conversation with Vayu Naidu

In conversation with Sita Brahmachari

Jarred McGinnis: 'I made a contract with the reader to be honest with them'

In conversation with Colin Grant

Tishani Doshi: 'Girls are coming out of the woods, / wrapped in cloaks and hoods, / carrying iron bars and candles / and a multitude of scars'

In conversation with Vayu Naidu

Nels Abbey: 'I have a people pleasing-element inside me that I don't want to offend people, but when it comes to these things, I think I have a responsibility to say what needs to be said.'

In conversation with Jonny Wright

Foday Mannah: 'Growing up in Sierra Leone... if you can convince people that I am a proxy to a higher power, that is significant power to yield.'

In conversation with Bashabi Fraser

Sanjoy K Roy: 'A thousand years later, it appears we'd all chosen to be reborn together in this lifetime, to work through out entangled karma and find ways to forget and heal.'

In conversation with Vayu Naidu

In conversation with Sita Brahmachari

The author on Namwali Serpell's exquisite book On Morrison, finding an outlet in Apple TV's Shrinking, the film The Tale of the Princess Kaguya by Isao Takahata and the pure joy of AR Rahman x Rushil Ranjan in concert at the Royal Albert Hall.

Sasha Darvas’ cultural highlights

Raffaella Sero’s cultural highlights

Meredith Davis’ cultural highlights

Darryl Marsden’s cultural highlights

WritersMosaic Original Series

Ritual

In the first series of poems commissioned by Hannah Lowe, Writers Mosaic’s poetry editor, six poets explore how ritual gives meaning to our lives – from the sacred to the everyday, inherited to invented practices, and from private gesture to communal expression. At a time when the news and political landscape can feel increasingly divisive, hostile and uncertain, poems that attend to small acts of care, tenderness and grief feel especially important.

Edited by Hannah Lowe

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A Wedding Portrait

by Julia Copus

How I Met Your Mother

by Yomi Ṣode

Ritual

by Glyn Maxwell

Almost a year now

by Stephen Sexton

Mope

by Hannah Silva

Dear Mr Lam

by Helen Quah

Featured episode

A Wedding Portrait

Ritual had steadied us

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Poetry films

Four UK based poets read their work and pieces that have been inspirational. Commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, in collaboration with WritersMosaic.

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Poetry films

Four UK based poets read their work and pieces that have been inspirational. Commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, in collaboration with WritersMosaic.

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Anthony Anaxagorou reads his poem, ‘Things Already Lost’.

3 mins

Marjorie Lotfi reads her poem, ‘The Hebridean Crab Apple’.

3 mins

Anthony Anaxagorou reads his poem, ‘Things Already Lost’.

3 mins

Marjorie Lotfi reads her poem, ‘The Hebridean Crab Apple’.

3 mins

Jo Clement reads her poem, ‘Playing Cards’.

3 mins

Jason Allen-Paisant reads his poem, ‘Right Now I’m Standing’.

3 mins

Jo Clement reads her poem, ‘Playing Cards’.

3 mins

Jason Allen-Paisant reads his poem, ‘Right Now I’m Standing’.

3 mins

WritersMosaic Original Series

Fiction Prescriptions

Great novels offer insights into the human condition but can they also be tools for living? Co-hosts Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy provide bibliotherapy in our new podcast series. Each month listeners can write in with their dilemmas and our dynamic duo will suggest remedies for the head and heart, drawn from novels, poetry and prose collections.

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