Event overview
0207 717 2224
Third event in seminar strand lead by Professor Helen Carr New Date - Previously advertised on the 3rd March
The Pinter Centre, as part of the 3 year AHRC funded project 'Beyond the Linear Narrative' is delighted to present the third event in our research strand 'Disrupting the Narrative:Gender, sexuality and fractured form in diasporic writing and performance.'
There will be readings from two poets, Bernadine Evaristo and Patience Agbabi, followed by discussion and drinks.
About the poets:
Patience Agbabi is a poet and performer born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents and spent her teenage years living in North Wales. She was educated at Oxford University and has appeared at numerous diverse venues in the UK and abroad.
R.A.W., her groundbreaking debut collection of poetry, was published in 1995, and won the 1997 Excelle Literary Award. Her poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women's Poetry and IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain. Transformatrix, a commentary on late twentieth-century Britain and a celebration of poetic form, was published in 2000. It received excellent reviews in publications including the Daily Telegraph, the Independent on Sunday and Poetry Review.
Her work has also appeared on television and radio. In 1998 her work was featured on Channel 4's Litpop series and she was commissioned by the BBC to write a poem for the Blue Peter National Children's Poetry Competition in 1999.
In 2002, she obtained an MA in Creative Writing, the Arts and Education at the University of Sussex in Brighton. She has been Lecturer in Creative Writing at several universities: the University of Greenwich (2002-2003); the University of Wales, Cardiff (2002-2004); and the University of Kent at Canterbury (2004-2005).
Patience Agbabi lives in Gravesend, Kent. In 2004 she was named as one of the Poetry Society's 'Next Generation' poets. Her most recent collection is Bloodshot Monochrome (2008).
Bernadine Evaristo is a British writer. She was born in Woolwich, south east London to an English mother and Nigerian father.
She is the author of these books: Hello Mum (Penguin 2010), Lara (Bloodaxe 2009), Blonde Roots (Penguin 2008), Soul Tourists (Penguin 2005), The Emperor’s Babe (Penguin 2001) and the first version of Lara (ARP 1997).
Bernardine’s novella HELLO MUM will be published by Penguin, March 4th, 2010. This book looks at teenage knife crime in the UK, told through the voice of a 14 year old boy.
LARA was published by Bloodaxe Books on the 29th October 2009. Based on her family history, it spans 150 years, seven generations and five countries of origin: England, Nigeria, Ireland, Germany and Brazil. Originally published in 1997, this edition has been revised and expanded by a third.
Her first fully-prose novel BLONDE ROOTS* was published by Penguin UK in August 2008. (USA 2009) It is a slavery story with a difference: Africans enslave Europeans over a four hundred year period. The protagonist is a white woman from Europa who lives out her adult life as a slave in the New World. Satirical, tragic, imaginative – it offers a fresh perspective onslavery. The US paperback version is published January 5th, 2010.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 24 Feb 2010 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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