On 9 June 2020, over a thousand protestors gathered on Oxford’s High Street in front of Oriel College’s statue of Cecil John Rhodes, calling for its removal.
Current Black Lives Matter protests are putting unprecedented pressure on the racial injustices which Black people face in all walks of life in this country and elsewhere.
Noughts + Crosses review Sam Arnon Noughts + Crosses, the TV adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s series of novels, manages brilliantly to transfer Blackman’s sentiments and intentions onto the small screen. In aRead More…
‘It’s Just a Piece of Paper’: How Images of Paper across The Beekeeper of Aleppo Represent Discrimination against Refugees Daniele Nunziata Postcolonial studies and refugee writing are two fields with significant pointsRead More…
An Interview with Rana Dasgupta Ann Ang In this interview with Ann Ang, a DPhil candidate in English at the University of Oxford, Rana Dasgupta speaks about his trajectory as a writer,Read More…
No Beautiful Poems about Violence Chelsea Haith Patience Agbabi’s reading from her work at a Writers Make Worlds event in the Oxford English Faculty on 5 December 2019 shook audience preconceptions ofRead More…
Great Writers Inspire at Home: Patience Agbabi reading and conversation In this podcast the dynamic poet Patience Agbabi is in conversation about her Ted Hughes short-listed collection Telling Tales (2015), a rebelliousRead More…
Emma Parker discusses several white British authors not typically considered as ‘postcolonial’, but whose work nevertheless addresses the long legacies of empire.
Interview with Kei Miller In this interview with Elleke Boehmer, Kei Miller reflects on his work, the politics of literary representation, how influenced he is by ideas of his readers or audiences,Read More…
Kwame Dawes in Oxford Katherine Collins During Kwame Dawes’s residency in Oxford in 2018, he gave generously of his time and enthusiasm for poetry in a series of events. These included theRead More…