A small voice in the poetry wilderness. This week has been more of a carousel ride than normal. Had confirmed coming to Bristol for Yardstick in June. This is great news as she has just won a Jamaica 50 award. And is excited about visiting Bristol for the first time. This is a great start to programming Yardstick, with Rommi Smith. Details being finalised this will be a good year for writing from the Diaspora in Bristol.

I bought Tail of the Blue Bird. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page. Recent Updates Toggle Comment Threads. For those who want to know more. Adowa a traditional dance of the Akan.

Thank you to everyone who took part and came to the Festival events. The poetry competition booklet will be in libraries by the end of the month. Our main winner was Belle Powell, the Aspire Creativity prize winner was Bria Lawrence and Ben Morris came away with a commendation. You can read their poems on our competition page. Keep an eye on blog updates.

The Baltic Countries - Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania - are the Market Focus countries at the 2018 London Book Fair. A collaborative project with female artists and graphic novelists from South Asia and the UK. Poets and writers walk, talk and share stories in these films from four cities across Canada. British Council Literature Seminar in Berlin. New poetry featured across the Chinese metro. Find out about a poetry project making journeys more stimulating and inspiring.

Sunday, 15 November 2015. Peace and Tolerance after the Paris attacks this weekend. Sunday, 27 March 2011. Big Writing for a Small World. On Thursday March 24th we launched the fifth anthology of poetry by participants in writing workshops funded and run by English PEN. It was an electrifying evening of work by participants from all over the world. Today is a glorious day. Today is me on the rota. Today is a lovely breakfast. When I sit in my garden.

The Writings of a general Wordsbody. Sunday, August 13, 2006. Gentle and Not-so-gentle readers, this blog has now. And is moving to another home. There will be no new posts and comments have now shut down. Please remember to update any links on your sites. and do come with us to. The image above is one of a series by. The photo essay is titled. Let Your Light So Shine. Monday, August 07, 2006. We are not a country of the blind.

Posted by Nii Ayikwei Parkes in Poems. Now I can begin to respect my own project as a project. With this and find images of the poets to go with their poems. Posted by Nii Ayikwei Parkes in Poems.

Storytelling at Pop Up Festival 2014. An exchange of 18 professional illustrators and comics artists across the UK, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania working with multilingual groups of talented 16-24 year-old visual arts students. An award-winning multilingual animation project bringing Somali, Colombian, Bangladeshi and Turkish families together to make stories in their home languages.