InSight

Diggers and Builders

How might writers also work as community activists? Are the two compatible? For WritersMosaic the playwright Linda Brogan, crime writer Peter Kalu, poet Shamshad Khan and screenwriter Jonny Wright join forces to resist the idea of ‘community’ as amateur, less good and low budget.
3rd September 2023

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Films from WritersMosaic

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Reggae Story

Hannah Lowe reads her poem, 'Reggae Story' inspired by her Jamaican father, Chick. Directed by Matthew Thompson and commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.

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The City Kids See the Sea

Roger Robinson reads his poem, 'The City Kids See the Sea'. Directed by Matthew Thompson and commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.

In Conversation

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Writers talking to writers

Raymond Antrobus: 'Deafness has given me an art, a history, a culture and a tradition to live through.'

In conversation with Colin Grant

Jason Allen-Paisant: 'Silence is one theme that I dwell on, the silence of our lives, the silence of trauma, the silence of the shame linked to our history.'

In conversation with John Siddique

Juliet Gilkes Romero: 'The only thing that traumatised me was the idea that because of Covid, [the play] would not be seen.'

In conversation with Colin Grant

Close Up

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Essays / Fiction / Poetry / Memoir

Britain on the way home

'It is not their flags we should be afraid of, but their anger.'

Maame Blue

Tell My Horse

My favourite book; an audacious, compelling and forensic expedition into Jamaican and Haitian socio-cultural lived experience in the early twentieth century

Juliet Gilkes Romero

Between tradition and innovation: Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s cross-cultural currents

Drawing of parallels between the art of Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Kerry James Marshall

Franklin Nelson

My Hit List

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One person's reading, watching, listening and visiting

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Reviews

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Books / Film / Stage / Art / Music

It Was Just an Accident

Iranian director Jafar Panahi's film probes the relationship between individuals, the state and violence with determined humanism

Anahit Behrooz

Concrete Dreams

A novel about doing rather than feeling, each episode in this long piece is discomfortingly realistic.

Max Farrar

Phoenix Brothers

Sita Brahmachari's novel raises questions about agency, assimilation and solidarity for refugee children

Darren Chetty

Podcasts

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Original series from WritersMosaic

Illuminating, in-depth conversations between writers.

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What we leave we carry, The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

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Frantz Fanon: revolutionary psychiatrist

Afro-Caribbean writer Frantz Fanon, his work as a psychiatrist and commitment to independence movements.

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Mosaic Monologues

A six-part audio drama series featuring writers with provocative and unexpected tales.

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