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.
The seven lamps of writing
I write because I am, and I write because I am not
The lorry
'What if it was a phantom lorry, and my grandfather, who always showed an interest in my writing, had driven it here from the afterlife to make sure I was hitting my targets every day?'
In defence of Black History Month
Is it time to bring an end to the UK's Black History Month?
Steve
The film adaptation of Max Porter's novella Shy is not a story about middle-class adults rescuing troubled youth; the grown-ups aren’t okay
Impulse: Playing with Reality
A mixed reality experience by Anagram that journeys into the ADHD mind
Soon Come
In Soon Come, readers are treated to a narrative that has been, figuratively speaking, marinated in jerk seasoning
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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