A event on Tuesday 5th April. The event starts at 18:30.
BSL Interpreted ✓ Captioned ✓
18:30 - 19:30pm (BST). FREE.
Join author of The Perseverance and All The Names Given, poet and educator, Raymond Antrobus in conversation with Tjawangwa Dema as they discuss poetry and disobedience. In this conversation we consider Antrobus’ work broadly and some of the ways in which poetic disobedience can be performed through language, form and content. If poetry is a careful and intentional practice what does it mean to disrupt the familiar, to centre Blackness, or to decentre the hearing world? We look forward to this sensorial, tender and investigative poet’s reading of his multi-award winning poetry. (Photo Credit: Adam Docker)
The audience will have an opportunity to ask Raymond broader questions or comment through the chat in this BSL interpreted event.
Tjawangwa Dema is the author of Mandible, selected for the New-Generation African Poets box set, and The Careless Seamstress, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize. A poet, educator and arts administrator her honours include a Botswana Top 40 under 40 award, a Mail and Guardian editor’s choice award and fellowships from the University of Iowa, Northwestern University and the Danish International Visiting Artists programme. A new collection, an/other pastoral, is due out April 22, 2022.
Raymond Antrobus MBE FRSL was born in London, Hackney to an English mother and Jamaican father. In 2019 he became the first poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre. Other accolades include the Ted Hughes award, PBS Winter Choice, A Sunday Times Young Writer of the year award, Somerset Maugham award and The Guardian Poetry Book Of The Year 2018, as well as a shortlist for the Griffin Prize and Forward Prize.
“His monologues are stunning studies of voice and substance, and his lyric poems are graceful and finely crafted” – Kwame Dawes
“Raymond uses nostalgia for a place and a time, but resists sentimentality completely. He makes the reader/listener experience the moment with all the senses and very skilfully sets that up against a harsher reality” – Imtiaz Dharker
Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2022.
Entry requirements:
18:30 - 19:30pm (BST). FREE.
Join author of The Perseverance and All The Names Given, poet and educator, Raymond Antrobus in conversation with Tjawangwa Dema as they discuss poetry and disobedience. In this conversation we consider Antrobus’ work broadly and some of the ways in which poetic disobedience can be performed through language, form and content. If poetry is a careful and intentional practice what does it mean to disrupt the familiar, to centre Blackness, or to decentre the hearing world? We look forward to this sensorial, tender and investigative poet’s reading of his multi-award winning poetry. (Photo Credit: Adam Docker)
The audience will have an opportunity to ask Raymond broader questions or comment through the chat in this BSL interpreted event.
Tjawangwa Dema is the author of Mandible, selected for the New-Generation African Poets box set, and The Careless Seamstress, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize. A poet, educator and arts administrator her honours include a Botswana Top 40 under 40 award, a Mail and Guardian editor’s choice award and fellowships from the University of Iowa, Northwestern University and the Danish International Visiting Artists programme. A new collection, an/other pastoral, is due out April 22, 2022.
Raymond Antrobus MBE FRSL was born in London, Hackney to an English mother and Jamaican father. In 2019 he became the first poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre. Other accolades include the Ted Hughes award, PBS Winter Choice, A Sunday Times Young Writer of the year award, Somerset Maugham award and The Guardian Poetry Book Of The Year 2018, as well as a shortlist for the Griffin Prize and Forward Prize.
“His monologues are stunning studies of voice and substance, and his lyric poems are graceful and finely crafted” – Kwame Dawes
“Raymond uses nostalgia for a place and a time, but resists sentimentality completely. He makes the reader/listener experience the moment with all the senses and very skilfully sets that up against a harsher reality” – Imtiaz Dharker
Part of Lyra - Bristol Poetry Festival 2022.
Entry requirements:
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