Blood & Fire: Passion & Lyricism
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.
In defence of Black History Month
Is it time to bring an end to the UK's Black History Month?
In appreciation of Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham was interested in everything, from telepathic communication to murderous families with lack of self-awareness
A close encounter with accents
An investigation of the consequences of speaking with a foreign accent in your adopted country
Soon Come
In Soon Come, readers are treated to a narrative that has been, figuratively speaking, marinated in jerk seasoning
The Harder They Come
In the latest production of The Harder They Come at Stratford East, London, the musical depicts all of Jamaican life on stage with thrilling simplicity.
Love forms
The experience of silently reading Claire Adam’s Love Forms is one of immense and daunting loneliness
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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