Spotlight
Speaking out
Marcus Garvey’s redemption song
In the 1920s, Marcus Garvey, the most famous black man on the planet, terrified the authorities who schemed to imprison him in 1925. Recently, Joe Biden pardoned Garvey. In Negro with a Hat, Colin Grant recalls the premature death of the 'Black Moses'.
My Hit List
Bashabi Fraser’s cultural highlights
Bashabi Fraser on the dance drama: Palash: Flame of the Forest, Hannah Lavery's Lament for Sheku Bayoh, Vibha Pankaj’s landscape paintings, Soumik Datta's Indian classical music, and Mishal Hussain's Threads
What We Leave We Carry
Eve Grubin
Eve Grubin was so affected by the differences she found in the English language when she relocated to London from the US that she wrote a poem about them, 'American in England'.
Guest Edition
Borderliner
Edited by Hannah Lowe
“This guest edition deploys and renews the term borderliner (an obsolete and racist epithet for people of mixed heritage) as a catalyst for multiple, innovative discussions of issues of identity, race, ethnicity and language.”
There Is Light Somewhere
Tavares Strachan's exhibiton includes images of Elizabeth II, African masks, animals and outer space
Childish Literature
Alejandro Zambra's memoir framed as a letter to his son Silvestre
My Missing Tongue
How Aamer Hussein realised his dream of writing in Urdu, the language he has learnt to love best
Getting Lost
Peter Kalu: In praise of getting lost
Events
Events
Bocas Lit Fest: Echoes in the blood
At Trinidad's Bocas Literary Festival's recent event at the British Library, Monique Roffey, Safiya Sinclair and Kevin Jared Hosein reflected on how the most intimate relations are shaped by conflicts in the Caribbean.
InSight
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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The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.
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