4 news items + something to watch…
1 / Poetry Review Spring Launch / LDN (Online)
I have a new poem in the spring edition of Poetry Review, and I’ll be reading it (and selections from my next book) at the launch, with Rashed Aqrabawi, Tiffany Atkinson and Joe Carrick-Varty. I was kinda surprised it was published actually, first poem I’ve written in a while. It’s spurred me to recommit, to carve out time and put ink to leaf – for the love of word.
10 April ‘25 / 7 - 8:30pm
Free / Book here!
2 / Doctor Who / Premier
So, I got to cerebrate with the cast and crew of Doctor Who at the premier on Monday, and I didn’t know my buddy Clara would be hosting! I grabbed her to snap this photo on the TARDIS-blue carpet, before we watched the first Ep. It was brilliant. Brilliant. I hope y’all make time to watch over the coming months. My episode, episode 5, will transmit on May 10th, please don’t miss it! Gather friends, make a watch-night of it.
Season 2 launches on Sat 12 April
on BBC iPlayer and BBC One
in the UK and Disney+
more info here.
3 / SEARCH PARTY / Alberta, Canada
Thanks for the lovely audiences who poured out for the Search Parties in Belfast and Dublin. The next one will be at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, in a 246-seat studio theatre, extensively used for dance, drama, intimate music and events, but which I will use for poetry and storytelling. As you know, each performance is different. So if you’ve been and are passing by, come along again.
2 May
‘25 / 7:30pm
Margaret Greenham Theatre
107 Tunnel Mountain Drive
Banff, Alberta, Canada
T1L 1H5.
Tix here.
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4 / NATURE MATTERS / New Anthology
What we know is that climate change will affect far more people from the global majority, than from the Western minority; that those least deserving will be the most punished by our continual destruction and desecrations of nature’s sacred places and precious jewels. Nature Matters, and this is the topic and lens through which this forthcoming anthology, discusses all we are doing. I have a few poems included and I imagine you’ll know a few of the others:
Victoria Adukwei Bulley, John Agard, Jason Allen-Paisant, Moniza Alvi, Anthony Anaxagorou, Raymond Antrobus, Mona Arshi, Andre Bagoo, Khairani Barokka, Dzifa Benson, Jay Bernard, Sujata Bhatt, Malika Booker, Kamau Brathwaite, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Mary Jean Chan, Kayo Chingonyi, David Dabydeen, Fred D’Aguiar, Kwame Dawes, Imtiaz Dharker, Tishani Doshi, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, Inua Ellams, Richard Georges, Lorna Goodison, Mina Gorji, Will Harris, Ranjit Hoskote, Sarah Howe, Ian Humphreys, Sharan Hunjan, Ishion Hutchinson, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Anthony Joseph, Bhanu Kapil, Jackie Kay, Mimi Khalvati, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, Zaffar Kunial, Hannah Lowe, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Roy McFarlane, Nick Makoha, E. A. Markham, Momtaza Mehri, Kei Miller, Daljit Nagra, Karthika Naïr, Grace Nichols, Selina Nwulu, Gboyega Odubanjo, Oluwaseun Olayiwola, Nii Parkes, Sandeep Parmar, Pascale Petit, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Alycia Pirmohamed, Nina Mingya Powles, Taz Rahman, A. K. Ramanujan, Nisha Ramayya, Shivanee Ramlochan, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Roger Robinson, Denise Saul, Seni Seneviratne, Olive Senior, Warsan Shire, Jeet Thayil, Marvin Thompson, Derek Walcott, Kandace Siobhan Walker, Rushika Wick, Jennifer Wong and Benjamin Zephaniah.
Pre-order from here.
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5 / Something to watch / Card On The Table!
Earlier this year, I got to break bread with Stanley Tucci, Professor Brian Cox and Sophie Turner. We had the chillest - we were too chill - conversation and the vibes were just right. It was part of a series called Cards On The Table, and you can watch my episode, right here. It’s only 25 mins long. Enjoy!
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