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Poetry on Film at the Conduit Club
WritersMosaic partnered with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation for a virtuosic evening of poetry and film at the Conduit Club in London. Hosted by Gabriel Gbadamosi, with poetry performances from Anthony Anaxagorou and Marjorie Lotfi, as well as a screening of inspired short films from Savannah Acquah and Rob Akin.
Savannah Acquah’s cultural highlights
The filmmaker, writer and actor on the delicate genius of the film Moonlight, Little Simz's music, the Ghanaian photographer James Barnor, the energy in Yomi Ṣode's writing and her appreciation for the playwright debbie tucker green.
Frantz Fanon: revolutionary psychiatrist
Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961) by the Afro-Caribbean writer Frantz Fanon are classics of anti-colonial literature. Ten writers here explore Fanon’s legacy, his radical work as a psychiatrist, his writing, and his commitment towards independence movements – all part of a remarkable life that came to an end when Fanon died from cancer aged just 36.
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Inglan mad dem
A former medical student yearns to have been familiar with the writing of Frantz Fanon who might have acted as a guide during his years of studies.
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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.
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.
Sentimental Value
‘It’s hard to love someone without mercy.’ Joachim Trier illustrates the intimacy between reconciliation, forgiveness, and the home in Sentimental Value
A New New Me
A novel as mischievous and multiplicitous as its protagonist
RENDANG
A magical reclamation of individuality from the mass of some of the world’s largest cities
Granta 173: India
A look at four short pieces of fiction from Granta's latest edition showcasing Indian writing
It Was Just an Accident
Iranian director Jafar Panahi's film probes the relationship between individuals, the state and violence with determined humanism
Concrete Dreams
A novel about doing rather than feeling, each episode in this long piece is discomfortingly realistic.
Phoenix Brothers
Sita Brahmachari's novel raises questions about agency, assimilation and solidarity for refugee children
Mother Mary Comes to Me
'Who would expect such straightforward homage from an iconoclast and self-confessed sceptic like Roy?'
Building Literary Resistance
Personal reflections as a white, non-Muslim, middle-class editor for the journal Critical Muslim
Watching a theatre go dark
What we lost with the Blue Elephant Theatre
Waste not, want not
The cultural politics of waste
Other Wild
Emily Zobel Marshall invites us to heal by connecting to our senses and the natural world
Fiction Prescriptions
Co-hosts Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy introduce our new podcast series, Fiction Prescriptions: A Novel Cure, focussed on bibliotherapy. Each month listeners can write in with their dilemmas, and our dynamic duo will suggest remedies for the head and heart, drawn from books.
All the men my mother never married
A chapter from an unpublished autobiography, dedicated to my mother, Sarah Efeti Kange
Tell My Horse
My favourite book; an audacious, compelling and forensic expedition into Jamaican and Haitian socio-cultural lived experience in the early twentieth century
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Poetry on Film at the Conduit Club
WritersMosaic partnered with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation for a virtuosic evening of poetry and film at the Conduit Club in London.
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Reggae Story
Hannah Lowe reads her poem, 'Reggae Story' inspired by her Jamaican father, Chick. Directed by Matthew Thompson and commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.
The City Kids See the Sea
Roger Robinson reads his poem, 'The City Kids See the Sea'. Directed by Matthew Thompson and commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.
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Afro-Caribbean writer Frantz Fanon, his work as a psychiatrist and commitment to independence movements.
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