Play Video Overview Produced by Poet in the City, Common Language is a new digital programme with an initial series spanning four episodes, broadcast live and hosted on YouTube. Each...
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The Ivan Juritz Prize Winner for text: Nick Makoha (King's College London) Read A Low Pressure System A Low-Pressure System is part of sequence that explores the Entebbe hijacking in 1976....
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Virgil's Aeneid: Lessons on Fleeing, Hope and Resilience Presented by Poet in the City 7th June. 7.30pm . £13.50 – £16.50 full price, £11.50 – £14.50 concessions The plight of...
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”I hope the poem triggers happy memories from people around the country about their local pub or those pubs you stumble upon. It is funny how a friend's conversation and...
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Voices Nationwide: Celebrating fatherhood Campaign At Nationwide our members have a voice, and in this collection of poems, we asked different dads to use theirs to explain what being a...
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Southbank Centre’s BAM- Being A Man festival Being A Man festival addressed the challenges and pressures of masculine identity in the 21st century.For 2017, its fourth year, we asked: what makes a...
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Write To The City 2018 This year's Write To The City will take place from July 23rd- July 27th at the UIC School of Art & Art History. 400 S....
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British Council Literature Seminar in Berlin 2018 Writing Gender – Sexuality, Feminism and Masculinity - 2018 will connect a new generation of writers and readers. The 33rd British Council Literature...
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The Guardian’s Best Books 2017 So to end the year I have had three wonderful ladies say marvellous things about my poetry collection in the Guardian. From moving memoirs to far-reaching…
Goldsmiths Writers Centre presents: Nick Makoha and fellow guest poets on Black Metic Nick Makoha was shortlisted for the 2017 Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection. His poems appear…
Play Video Poets' Perspectives: Religion & War Part of Belief and Beyond BeliefJoin poets from Uganda, Sri Lanka, Syria, Iraq and Spain explore the conflicts that have affected their lives...
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Stablemates – Ledbury Jill Abram presents Stablemates, a poetry salon with Roger Robinson, Nick Makoha and Seni Seneviratne from Peepal Tree Press. Roger Robinson is a dub poet writing songs…
The Forward Prizes for Poetry 2017 Hear readings from the ten collections chosen by the Forward judges from poetry published in the UK and the Republic of Ireland over the…
Coffee House Poetry Presents – Poetry @ the Troubador Step into summer with superb poetry from some super summer-season Troubadour poets:
Goldsmiths Writers' Centre presents an hour of poetry with Nick Makoha, Richard Scott and Kathryn Maris 22 Mar 20175:00pm - 6:30pm - Richard Hoggart Building room 304 Under the directorship...
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Breaking Ground: International Showcases Celebrating British Diversity in Literature 15 Mar 2017, 14:30 - 15:30 - Gallery Suite, Room 2, Grand Hall Gallery 2017 marks a time of change across the...
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Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Chapbook Prize 2016 This year ends on a good note as my pamphlet Resurrection Man was selected by judge Robin Coste Lewis, for the 2016...
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The Bug presents Killing Sound A truly unique clash of hypnagogic sounds and deep thoughts: music by Tim Hecker, Coil and William Basinski meets poems by Bill Burroughs, Roger…
The Male Gaze - The Writers Series 05 Oct 2016, 17:30 - 19:30 Book now The Writers Series - Autumn 2016 Roger Robinson & Nick Makoha These two multi-talented...
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Breaking Ground from NY to LA Come and hear some of the Breaking Ground writers talking in person and on film about their experiences of touring the USA. Featuring: Gabriel Gbadamosi,…