26Jul/17

Patience Agbabi

26 July 2017Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersPatience Agbabiadmin

Poet Patience Agbabi FRSL was born ‘waxing lyrical’ in 1965 in London to Nigerian parents. She was fostered from an early age by white parents in North Wales.
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21Jul/17

Caleb Femi

21 July 2017Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersCaleb Femiadmin

Caleb Femi (1990– ) is a poet, filmmaker, and photographer. Born in Kano, Nigeria, he moved to London when he was seven years old, settling in Peckham…
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18Jul/17

Linton Kwesi Johnson

18 July 2017Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersLinton Kwesi Johnsonadmin

Linton Kwesi Johnson was born in 1952 in Chapelton, a small rural town in Jamaica. He moved to London at the age of 11 to join his mother who had immigrated two years earlier.
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16Jan/17

D-Empress Dianne Regisford's Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!

D-Empress Dianne Regisford: ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’

16 January 2017Featured works, Performance, Poetry, Summary, context and historyD-Empress Dianne Regisfordadmin

In a series of seven sculptures created by abstract expressionist artiste D-Empress Dianne Regisford, the multi-sensory performance installation, ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’ is at once an incantation, a lament and an invocationRead More…