12Jul/17
Roger Robinson
Roger Robinson Biography Writing In 2001, Robinson moved from having his poetry printed in a number of influential anthologies – notably, The Fire People (ed. Lemn Sissay, 1998) and The Penguin BookRead More…
12Jul/17
Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Pakistan. She grew up in Karachi, studied in the US, and now lives in London. Her first novel In the City by the Sea was published in 1998.
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11Jul/17
Warsan Shire
Warsan Shire is a poet born to Somali parents in Kenya in 1988. When she was only a year old her family migrated to England. She has been described as a ‘refugee poet’…
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11Jul/17
Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla Biography Writing Shukla is one of the UK’s leading voices on race, diversity, and identity. After reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (2015) and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen (2014),Read More…
11Jul/17
Lemn Sissay
Born in Wigan in 1967 to a mother who moved to Lancashire from Ethiopia the previous year, Sissay was placed directly into foster care and raised by a family…
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11Jul/17
Zadie Smith
Born in London to a Jamaican immigrant mother and English father, Smith (1975– ) has written multi-award winning novels as well as many essays and short stories.
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11Jul/17
Benjamin Zephaniah
The artist and activist Benjamin Zephaniah was born in Birmingham to Caribbean parents. His mother, a Jamaican Windrush immigrant, recalls Zephaniah and his twin sister’s date of birth…
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19May/17
‘Waist Bead Serenade’
‘Waist Bead Serenade’ This poem comes from D-Empress Dianne Regisford’s ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’. Highlight any portion of the text to annotate the passage with your own thoughts. It requires a certainRead More…
06Feb/17
Extract from NW
Extract from NW This extract comes from p. 182 of Zadie Smith’s NW. We’re interested in your reading experience. The text is fully annotatable: highlight any portion of the text to add yourRead More…
06Feb/17
Extract from A God in Every Stone
Extract from A God in Every Stone This extract comes from pp. 287–288 of Kamila Shamsie’s A God in Every Stone. We’re interested in your reading experience. Did any part of this passageRead More…