TEN – THE COMPLETE WORKS SHOWCASE
Join our hosts Bernardine Evaristo and Daljit Nagra at this spectacular showcase event to celebrate The Complete Works. This was an ambitious two-year project to support talented Black and Asian poets in their professional development and development of their craft. Devised and coordinated by Spread the Word, in collaboration with Bernardine Evaristo we are delighted that this event also marks the publication of “Ten” an anthology of the poets’ work by Bloodaxe Books. The Poets Roger Robinson is a Trinidadian poet and playwright who has…
Ten New Poets by Bernardine Evaristo – Poetry Book Society
Ten New Poets by Bernardine Evaristo – Poetry Book Society. “This moving, challenging and inspiring new anthology introduces ten sparkling new talents who demonstrate the richness, energy and confidence of the poetic voice in our multicultural country. It is a joyful and important moment in publishing.”Carol Ann Duffy, Poet LaureateTen new poets:Rowyda Amin, Mir Mahfuz Ali, Malika Booker, Nick Makoha, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Roger Robinson, Janet Kofi Tsekpo, Denise Saul, Seni Seneviratne and Shazea Quraishi.Editors: Bernardine Evaristo & Daljit NagraThis anthology, Ten, published by Bloodaxe Books,…
Nick Makoha opens African History week: Norway
Come to Nick Makoha’s Show – My Father & Other Superheroes ” Today from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. Friends of the British Council can ask for free tickets at the door. Please note limited places left so be early in order to get your ticket. Performance starts at 2000. Nick opens the sixth Afrikan History Week at the Theater boat MS Innvik in Oslo. The renowned Ugandan-British poet Nick Makoha shares a personal monologue “My Father and Other Super Heroes: an Allegory of Fathers and Sons”. Then,…
MY FATHER & OTHER SUPERHEROES
My Father and Other Superheroes’ is a one-hour one-man show, written and performed by me, the central themes of the show are fatherhood, loss, heroes, exile, love and hope. It fuses the art forms of traditional theatre, contemporary spoken word and verse. I have been invited by the British Council to perform my 1-man-show My Father and Other Superheroes in Black History Week in Oslo on the Theatre boat MS Innvik. The show was initially showcased in 2009 to a sold out audience, it was…
