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Summer in Brooklyn

In Brooklyn's summer, hustlers hustle, police officers police traffic, and old people sit on their steps to escape the furnace.

Linda Brogan reflects on how the Reno memoirs ignite empathy and remind that artists need to be sustained.

A masterpiece reconstructing from the archive a moment of trauma in the Black British lived experience.

An insight into the New York Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ life

The glass had shattered because I had lived in poetry all my life, had communicated through poetry, without being aware what poems do to people.

Bunny Livingston had always felt closer to Marley than anybody else, and believed that Perry was trying to ‘take over’ his soul-mate.

Breeze was well aware of the importance of a female literary lineage, citing her mother as a source of poetry from her early years in rural Jamaica.

Linda Brogan asserts her right to cultural restoration.

Nadifa Mohamed's novel based on true events is a favourite for this year's top literary prize.

An artist rocks up, builds a shelter and declares herself free.