Caribbean lyrical writing, spoken word and music blasts onto the stage in a collaborative new series between the British Library and WritersMosaic, a division of the Royal Literary Fund. Phoebe McIntosh (Dominoes), Salena Godden (Mrs Death Misses Death) and Jacqueline Crooks (Fire Rush) join forces with Jazz musicians, a Dancehall dancer and a DJ for an evening pulsing to the beat of Caribbean speech.
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).
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
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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