The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998 – Exhibition Report Zana Mody The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998 (5 October 2024 – 5 January 2025) is currently on display at theRead More…
Exhibition Report – Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music Eliza McCarthy The British Library’s 2024 exhibition, Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music (26 April to 26Read More…
“As if their bodies became AIR”: Roger Robinson in Oxford, 23 May 2024 Clara Park On 23 May 2024, the poet, writer and performer Roger Robinson gave a reading and talk atRead More…
Rethinking cultural identity and belonging: East and Southeast Asian Poets writing in and beyond Britain Jennifer Wong Cited in the preface to the State of Play: Poets of East and Southeast AsianRead More…
Sustaining the Momentum: Bernardine Evaristo speaks at Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre, 22 June 2023 Ciaran Duncan In a city not short on spaces that can feel intimidating, the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford isRead More…
“Famous British Justice” on trial in Tiger Bay: A review of The Fortune Men Ciaran Duncan “The tireless stoker, the poker shark, the elegant wanderer, the love-starved husband, the soft-hearted father” –Read More…
On Family and Flèche: Theophilus Kwek and Mary Jean Chan Read at Kellogg College Ann Ang 19 May 2022 – an appreciative audience was treated to a lively reading from poets TheophilusRead More…
Intimacies: On Tice Cin’s Keeping the House and Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water Eileen Ying Tice Cin and Caleb Azumah Nelson arrived for a reading at Oxford’s Daunt Books on a characteristicallyRead More…
Grieving, Loving: On bell hooks Eileen Ying Lover, thinker, dreamer; razor-edged critic and open-armed activist; radical, riotous Black feminist with a penchant for leaving a room fuller than it began – bellRead More…
Close reading of Yousif M. Qasmiyeh’s Writing the Camp Serena Alagappan Yousif Qasmiyeh shatters and reconstructs a traditional conception of time in order to understand how time enigmatically exists in the BaddawiRead More…