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Walk good: in Britain’s colonial countryside

WritersMosaic explores questions of migrants' and their descendants' relationship with the British countryside.

As the National Trust reports, a significant part of the wealth and beauty of the British countryside was secured by the exploitation and plunder of people in the colonies. In the 1960s, when Louise Bennett spoke of mass migration to the Motherland as colonising in reverse, she could not have foreseen that black and brown people would not simply confine themselves to the industrial concrete conurbations. In collaboration with the British Library on 24 September, WritersMosaic and Colin Grant brought together Corinne Fowler, Roger Robinson, Jonny Pitts, Hannah Lowe, John Siddique and Angeline Morrison to reflect on how and why we’re everywhere now, flocking to green and pleasant lands that once seemed out of bounds.

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Preaching

'Preaching': A new poem by the T.S.Eliot Prize-winning poet Roger Robinson, from his forthcoming New and Selected Poems (Bloomsbury in 2026).

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Walking in the Wake

Walking in the Wake was produced for the Estuary Festival (2021) in collaboration with Elsa James, Dubmorphology and Michael McMillan who meditates on the River Thames as we follow black pilgrims traversing sites of Empire.

Wow, diaspora for real

Writer Aniefiok Ekpoudom reflects on diaspora and the fantasy of return through conversations with friends and strangers

Writing in Emilia-Romagna

Writer, educator and curator Nicole-Rachelle Moore on her time at the WritersMosaic Villa Lugara writing retreat in northern Italy

The Black Mirror

An evocative piece by writer Suhayl Saadi about an estate agent as she visits a property on her list that she hoped would never sell

The Quiet Ear

The Quiet Ear by poet Raymond Antrobus explores what it is to be deaf in the world of the hearing through his own upbringing and the lives of other deaf artists

Nowhere

Khalid Abdalla’s one-man show Nowhere, raises questions of 'Who do we feel responsible for?' and ‘What [is] a life worth?’

The Booker Prize 2025: a public shortlist, a private thrill

The poet and translator Sana Nassari reflects on the excitement among the more than 2,000 people attending the Royal Festival Hall event announcing the shortlist for the Booker Prize 2025

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What we leave we carry, The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

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