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26Jul/17
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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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25Jul/17
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Moniza Alvi

25 July 2017Poetry, Profiles, WritersMoniza Alviadmin

Born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1954, Moniza Alvi’s parents moved to England while she was an infant. She grew up in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, before attending the…
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25Jul/17
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Raymond Antrobus

25 July 2017Poetry, Profiles, WritersRaymond Antrobusadmin

A Londoner born in a British-Jamaican home in 1986, Raymond Antrobus started his career as a teacher and studied for an MA in Spoken Word at Goldsmiths….
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24Jul/17
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Vahni Capildeo

24 July 2017Poetry, Profiles, WritersVahni Capildeoadmin

Born Surya Vahni Priya Capildeo in Port of Spain in 1973, Vahni Capildeo comes from a vaunted and controversial political and literary Trinidadian family. As an established poet…
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23Jul/17
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Kayo Chingonyi

23 July 2017Poetry, Profiles, WritersKayo Chingonyiadmin

Soft spoken and charming in person, Kayo Chingonyi raises his voice and his political verve in performance. Born in Zambia in 1987, Chingonyi moved to the UK at age six…
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22Jul/17
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Kwame Dawes

22 July 2017Drama, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Profiles, WritersKwame Dawesadmin

Kwame Dawes is a poet, critic, editor, playwright, storyteller, broadcaster, actor and musician, born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica. The author of twenty books of poetry…
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21Jul/17
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Inua Ellams

21 July 2017Drama, Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersInua Ellamsadmin

Inua Ellams Biography Writing Ellams’s lyricism and cultural references point to influences ranging from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the intellectual playfulness of Terry Pratchett, with a strong undertow running throughout of Nigerian oralRead More…

21Jul/17
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Bernardine Evaristo

21 July 2017Drama, Fiction, Poetry, Profiles, WritersBernardine Evaristoadmin

Born in London, Bernardine Evaristo (1959– ) studied at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and went on to co-found the Theatre of Black Women in 1982.
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21Jul/17
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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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19Jul/17
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Sarah Howe

19 July 2017Poetry, Profiles, WritersSarah Howeadmin

The daughter of an English father and Chinese mother, Sarah Howe was born in 1983 in Hong Kong. At the age of seven she moved with her family moved to London.
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