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.
Great Writers Inspire at Home: Derek Attridge’s The Experience of Poetry (2019) Books and writers’ biographies can differ widely, but the experience of reading bears many features in common that extend acrossRead More…
Great Writers Inspire at Home: Sara Ahmed, ‘Closing the Door: Complaint as Diversity Work’ Text by Katherine Collins Dr Sara Ahmed is a prolific feminist writer and an independent scholar whose workRead More…
Elleke Boehmer’s Postcolonial Poetics: A Book at Lunchtime seminar A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Elleke Boehmer, author of Postcolonial Poetics, joined by Dr Malachi McIntosh, Professor Ben Morgan, Professor Richard Drayton andRead More…
Great Writers Inspire at Home: Reni Eddo-Lodge in conversation with Rebecca Surender Reni Eddo-Lodge (author of Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and winner of the Jhalak PrizeRead More…
On 26 April 2018, Linton Kwesi Johnson read from a selection of his poetry and discussed with Professor Paul Gilroy the inter-generational and transatlantic relationships that had nurtured it.
Elleke Boehmer introduces the Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds research project.
D-Empress Dianne Regisford presents a performance installation that explores the notion of the liberated woman from an African feminist perspective. […]
Prof. Elleke Boehmer and Dr Erica Lombard consider how our reading experiences are shaped by various factors, from publishers’ decisions about book covers to the text itself.
Writers Selma Dabbagh and Courttia Newland read from their work, and discuss why they write, who they write for, their imagined audiences, and how their writing relates to their identities.