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Nick Makoha
Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet and playwright. His writing has appeared in publications and outlets including ''The New York Times'', ''Poetry Review'', ''Rialto'', ''Poetry London'', ''Triquarterly Review'', ''Boston Review'', ''Callaloo'', and ''Wasafiri''. Biography Makoha was born in Uganda, and left the country as a young boy with his mother to escape the dictatorship of Idi Amin, and has since lived most of his life in the England. Now based in London, he has also lived in Kenya and Saudi Arabia. He published his first pamphlet, entitled ''The Lost Collection of an Invisible Man'', in 2005. He was part of Malika's Kitchen, the poetry collective co-founded by Malika Booker and Roger Robinson, and went with members of the collective to their first writers' retreat at the Arvon Foundation, where they were tutored by Kwame Dawes and Leone Ross. In 2008, he took part in The Complete Works mentoring programme initiated by Bernardine Evaristo, being mentored by George Szirtes. Sz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brunel University African Poetry Prize
The Brunel International African Poetry Prize is a literary award aimed at the "development, celebration and promotion of poetry from Africa." The prize is sponsored by Brunel University and Bernardine Evaristo. In the past it has been partnered by Commonwealth Writers and the African Poetry Book Fund USA. It comes with a £3,000 honorarium. It is aimed at unpublished poets with a manuscript of ten poems. The prize was founded by British-Nigerian writer Bernardine Evaristo in part to help introduce African poets to readers outside of Africa, saying: "It became clear to me that poetry from the continent could also do with a prize to draw attention to it and to encourage a new generation of poets who might one day become an international presence." She has managed the prize since 2011. Winners *2013: Warsan Shire (Somali–British) *2014: Liyou Libsekal (Ethiopia) *2015: Safia Elhillo (Sudan) and Nick Makoha (Uganda) joint-winners *2016: Gbenga Adesina (Nigeria) and Chekwube Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daljit Nagra
Daljit Nagra (born 1966) is a British poet whose debut collection, ''Look We Have Coming to Dover!'' was published by Faber in 2007. Nagra's poems relate to the experience of Indians born in the UK (especially Indian Sikhs), and often employ language that imitates the English spoken by Indian immigrants whose first language is Punjabi, which some have termed "Punglish". He was the first poet in residence at the BBC and has served as chair of the council of the Royal Society of Literature. He is a professor of creative writing at Brunel University London. Early life and education Daljit Nagra, whose Sikh Punjabi parents came to Britain from India in the late 1950s, was born and grew up in Yiewsley, near London's Heathrow Airport. The family moved to Sheffield in 1982."Biography" Daljit Nagra website. In 1988, Nagra went to study for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat (; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the neo-expressionism movement. Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz (artist), Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all over Manhattan, particularly in the cultural hotbed of the Lower East Side where rap, Punk visual art, punk, and street art coalesced into early hip-hop culture. By the early 1980s, his paintings were being exhibited in galleries and museums internationally. At 21, Basquiat became the youngest artist to ever take part in Documenta in Kassel, Germany. At 22, he became one of the youngest to exhibit at the Whitney Biennial in New York. The Whitney Museum of American Art held a retrospective of his artwork in 1992. Basquiat's art focused on dichotomies such as wealth versus poverty, integration versus segregation, and inner versus outer experience. He Appropriation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute Of Contemporary Arts
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an modernism, artistic and cultural centre on The Mall (London), The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch, the ICA contains galleries, a theatre, two cinemas, a bookshop and a bar. History The ICA was founded by Roland Penrose, Peter Watson (arts benefactor), Peter Watson, Herbert Read, Eric Craven Gregory, Peter Gregory, Geoffrey Grigson and E. L. T. Mesens in 1946. The ICA's founders intended to establish a space where artists, writers and scientists could debate ideas outside the traditional confines of the Royal Academy. The model for establishing the ICA was the earlier Leeds Arts Club, founded in 1903 by Alfred Orage, of which Herbert Read had been a leading member. Like the ICA, this too was a centre for multi-disciplinary debate, combined with avant-garde art exhibition and performances, within a framework that empha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cornelius Eady
Cornelius Eady (born 1954) is an American writer focusing largely on matters of race and society. His poetry often centers on jazz and blues, family life, violence, and societal problems stemming from questions of race and class. His poetry is often praised for its simple and approachable language. Biography Cornelius Eady was born in Rochester, New York, and is an author of seven volumes of poetry. In most of Eady's poems, there is a musical quality drawn from the Blues and Jazz. Recently awarded honors include the Strousse Award from ''Prairie Schooner'', a Lila Wallace-''Reader's Digest'' Award, and individual Fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Eady has also recently collaborated with jazz composer Deirdre Murray in the production of several works of musical theater, including ''You Don't Miss Your Water, Running Man, Fangs,'' and ''Brutal Imagination''. Eady's work also appea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toi Derricotte
Toi Derricotte (pronounced ''DARE-ah-cot'' ) (born April 12, 1941) is an American poet. She is the author of six poetry collections and a literary memoir. She has won numerous literary awards, including the 2020 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement in poetry awarded by the Poetry Society of America, and the 2021 Wallace Stevens Award, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets. From 2012–2017, Derricotte served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She is currently a professor emerita in writing at the University of Pittsburgh. Derricotte is a member of The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective. Early life The only child of Benjamin and Antonia (néa Baquet) Webster, Toi Derricotte was born Toinette Webster on April 12, 1941 in Hamtramck, Michigan. Her parents divorced when she was a teenager. A Catholic, she attended Girls Catholic Central High School in Detroit, where she graduated in 1959. She went to Mass every day. She later attended Wayne State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cave Canem Foundation
Cave Canem Foundation is an American 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1996 by poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady to remedy the underrepresentation and isolation of African-American poets in Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree programs and writing workshops across the United States. It is based in Brooklyn, New York. Cave Canem programs include an annual summer retreat, regional workshops, first- and second-book poetry prizes, anthology publication and national readings and panels. The organization has also published two anthologies, ''Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade'', edited by Derricotte and Eady (University of Michigan Press, 2006), and ''The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South'', edited by Nikky Finney (University of Georgia Press, 2007). In September 2016, the National Book Foundation awarded Cave Canem the Literarian Award for service to the American literary community. History Founded in 1996 by poets Toi Derricotte and Cornelius E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Fagon Award
The Alfred Fagon Award is granted annually for the best new play by a Black British playwright of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the United Kingdom. It was instituted in 1996 and first awarded in 1997, to recognise the work of Black British playwrights from the Caribbean, and named in honour of the poet and playwright, Alfred Fagon Alfred Fagon (25 June 1937 – 29 August 1986) was a British playwright, poet and actor. He was one of the most notable Black British playwrights of the 1970s and 1980s. Fagon worked for British Rail and served in the British Army before he wrote .... Its scope was broadened in 2006, to include those of African descent. The award is given with the support of the Peggy Ramsay Foundation. Winners Past winners include: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 2019: Jasmine Lee-Jones, for S''even methods of killing Kylie Jenner'' * 2020: Juliet Gilkes Romero, for ''The Whip'' * 2021: Mojisola Adebayo, for ''Famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wordsworth Trust
The Wordsworth Trust is an independent charity in the United Kingdom. It celebrates the life of the poet William Wordsworth, and looks after Dove Cottage in the Lake District village of Grasmere where Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy Wordsworth lived between 1799 and 1808. It also looks after the majority of the surrounding properties in the conservation area of Town End, and a collection of manuscripts, books and fine art relating to Wordsworth and other writers and artists of the Romantic period. In 2020 it introduced the brand name Wordsworth Grasmere. The Wordsworth Trust's charitable purposes comprise preserving Dove Cottage and its environs, and advancing the public knowledge and enjoyment of the works of Wordsworth and the Romantic period. The Wordsworth Trust is a member of the Cumbria Museum Consortium, along with Lakeland Arts and the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery Trust. In 2012–2015 and 2015–2018 this consortium was one of the 21 museums or co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in its journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Rumens
Carol Rumens FRSL (born 10 December 1944) is a British poet. Life Carol Rumens was born in Forest Hill, South London. She won a scholarship to Manchester Grammar School and later studied Philosophy at London University, but left before completing her degree. She gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Writing for the Stage (with Distinction) from City College Manchester in 2002. She taught at University of Kent at Canterbury (1983–85), Queen's University Belfast (1991–93 and 1995–98), University College Cork (1994), Stockholm University (1999), and University of Hull. As visiting Professor of Creative Writing, she has taught at the University of Wales, Bangor, and later at the University of Hull. Rumens was Poetry Editor for the publisher ''Quarto'' (1982–84) and the ''literary Review'' (1984–88). Her work has appeared in ''The Guardian'' and ''Harper's''. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984. Awards * 1981: ''New Statesman'' Prudence Farm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forward Prize For Poetry
The Forward Prizes for Poetry are major British awards for poetry, presented annually at a public ceremony in London. They were founded in 1992 by William Sieghart with the aim of celebrating excellence in poetry and increasing its audience. The prizes do this by identifying and honouring talent: collections published in the UK and Ireland over the course of the previous year are eligible, as are single poems nominated by journal editors or prize organisers. Each year, works shortlisted for the prizes – plus those highly commended by the judges – are collected in the ''Forward Book of Poetry''. The awards have been sponsored since their inception by the content marketing agency Bookmark, formerly Forward Worldwide. The best first collection prize is sponsored by the estate of Felix Dennis. The Forward Prizes for Poetry celebrated their 30th anniversary in 2021. For the 2023 prizes, a new category for outstanding performance of a poem was added to the list of awards. Awards T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
