England
Contacted:
Marjorie Morgan
Jason Allen Paisant
Jan 2023 review:
James Berry, Marjorie Morgan - Liverpool, Jay Bernard, Levi Tafari, Mayor Linsay, Moqapi Selassie, Heather PL of Telford, Heather’s neice, Natalie Fagan Brown,
Our English Arts Council link is: TBC
These are ideas and possibilities - work in progress
We will be including Jamaican Poets from
Liverpool and NW
North East
Midlands
London and SE
Bristol and SW
with one lead on the Project team
??? Marjorie Morgan
https://www.marjoriemorgan.com/about
Liverpool?
England - North
Leeds - Jason Allen-Paisant is happy to support
An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. Jason Allen-Paisant grew up in a village in central Jamaica. 'Trees were all around, ' he writes, 'we often went to the yam ground, my grandmother's cultivation plot. When I think of my childhood, I see myself entering a deep woodland with cedars and logwood all around. [...] The muscular guango trees were like beings among whom we lived.' Now he lives in Leeds, near a forest where he goes walking.
Midlands
S Kay Oliver
Joy Roxborough
Marcia Calame
Mayor Lindsay
Moqapi Selassie
From VS: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Levi Tafari, David Neita and Khadijah Imbrahim
London
Raymond Antrobus
Khadijah Ibrahiim is of Jamaican parentage, born in the city of Leeds, England. Educated at the University of Leeds; she has a MA in Theatre Studies. She is the Artistic Director of Leeds Young Authors and the Producer of Leeds Youth poetry Slam festival. Peepal Tree press published her poetry collection Rootz Runnin in 2008 that same year she toured the USA with the Fwords Creative Freedom writers. As a delegate for the Art Council England (Yorkshire) she attended Calabash International Literature Festival in Jamaica. She became one of the first international writers to attend the El Gouna Writers Residency in Egypt, 2010.
She was a member the advisory group that organised some of the events, which marked the visit of Dr Nelson Mandela to the City of Leeds. Hailed as one of Yorkshire’s ‘most prolific’ poets by BBC Radio, she continues to make various stage appearances across Britain, the USA, the Caribbean and Africa. Peepal Tree Press also published her latest collection of poems, Another Crossing.
