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The Forensic and the Fantastic – at the British Library

The WritersMosaic and the Poetry Translation Centre evening of Latinx poetry with multimedia performances and Afro-Colombian music and dance is an antidote to the recent wave of far-right violence unleashed in Britain. Hosted by writer Amanda Vilanova, poets and musicians explored acts of translation between cultures and across media to bring the living poetry of Latin America to the British Library. Film by Rob Akin.
21st August 2024
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Fruity

A darkly comic crime short film written by and starring Delon Jessop and directed by James Baines.

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Free Will

Will Harris reads his poem, 'Free Will'. Directed by Matthew Thompson and commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.

It’s being published I get paid for; the writing I would do for free

‘Any advance [...] for your novel is to compensate you for the horrors of being published'

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Unravelling Authur Hughes' Richard III

Marlon James: a Jamaican reckoning

'A return to a home I barely knew'

Haunting the Black Air

Poetic freedom across space and time

The Disappearers

A sprawling visceral experience that drops you in head first

The Lady Imam

Is the world ready to catch up with amina wadud?

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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Fiction Prescriptions

Bibliotherapy for the head and the heart

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Stay in your lane?

WritersMosaic interrogates the notion of ‘staying in your lane’ by asking writers how they attempt to think beyond the parameters of their cultural identity.

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