In conversation
Laura Henry-Allain in conversation with Trish Cooke
"Children are not too young to have conversations around race and racism."
24th January, 2024
'Everything that I do, if it's fiction books, non-fiction books, working in TV, it comes from that point of leaning into my Caribbean roots.'
Trish Cooke
Trish Cooke writes scripts for theatre, TV, film, radio and she also writes children’s books.
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Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes
The impact of space between what is happening on and off the page
On Snow
'The mind inevitably seeks a reenactment of the teal light I associate with home'
It’s being published I get paid for; the writing I would do for free
‘Any advance [...] for your novel is to compensate you for the horrors of being published'
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
A sharp, layered study of patriarchal privilege
The Story
A propulsive play centered on a black-run section of a mainstream newspaper
Some Sacred Harbour
As much a book of joy as of anger
Illuminating, in-depth conversations between writers.
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The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.
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In this second series of poems commissioned by Hannah Lowe, six poets explore the theme of surveillance.
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