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Roger Robinson in conversation with Gabriel Gbadamosi

Roger Robinson won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2019, and the following year, he spoke to Gabriel Gbadamosi about empathy in black writing, and migrant experience becoming rooted in words to keep us human.
16th February, 2022
'We’re trying to keep this balance to keep racism or things like the darknesses of colonialism and the retention of those things at bay. And I see that as a work of artists.'
Roger Robinson

Roger Robinson

Roger Robinson is an award-winning writer and performer from Trinidad now living in Britain.

Gabriel Gbadamosi

Gabriel Gbadamosi

Gabriel Gbadamosi is a poet, playwright, essayist and critic.

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