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…
On 27 November 2018, TORCH visiting professor and prize-winning poet Kwame Dawes spoke with JC Niala, Nana Aforiatta-Ayim, and Belinda Zhawi about a number of critical issues in contemporary African poetry and publishing.
A House for Mr Biswas has been canonized, as Harish Trivedi says, ‘as one of the greatest postcolonial novels in English’. […]
Aida Edemariam: Learning to Listen Aida Edemariam gave this talk on The Wife’s Tale at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing on 10 June 2019. Biographer Hermione Lee described the book as ‘anRead More…
Aida Edemariam: Telling Wives’ and Grandmothers’ Tales Text by Elleke Boehmer Aida Edemariam is a writer, journalist and biographer of dual Ethiopian and Canadian heritage, who grew up in Addis Ababa, theRead More…
The National Theatre production based on Andrea Levy’s unforgettable novel Small Island (April–August 2019) brings all the heart and angst of this tangled story vividly to the stage.