Event overview
Goldsmiths Writers' Centre and Poetry London presents: Poetry and Music: Martha Kapos, Raymond Antrobus and Taz Rahman
Raymond Antrobus was born in London, Hackney to an English mother and Jamaican father. He is the author of To Sweeten Bitter (Out-Spoken Press, 2017), The Perseverance (Penned In The Margins / Tin House, 2018) All The Names Given (Picador / Tin House, 2021), Signs, Music (Picador / Tin House, 2024), and the children's picture book Can Bears Ski? (Walkers Books, 2020). A number of his poems were added to the UK's GCSE syllabus in 2022. The BBC Radio 4 documentary Inventions In Sound, which accompanies All The Names Given, was produced by Falling Tree Productions and won a Best Documentary Award at the 2021 Third Coast International Audio Festival.
Martha Kapos’s first collection My Nights in Cupid’s Palace (2003) won the Jerwood/Aldeburgh Prize, and both this and her two subsequent collections from Enitharmon, Supreme Being (2008) and The Likeness (2014) were Poetry Book Society recommendations. The 2019 summer issue of Poetry London was her final issue as Poetry Co-Editor before her retirement. Her new collection Music, Awake Her: Selected and New Poems came out from Two Rivers Press in May this year.
Taz Rahman’s first poetry collection East of the Sun, West of the Moon was published by Seren in February 2024. He is a Hay Festival ‘Writers at Work’ and Literature Wales writer development programme alumni, had been shortlisted for the 2022 Aesthetica Creative Writing Prize and co-edits the climate emergency journal Modron. He serves as the committee chair for the Poetry Wales magazine and had founded the award-winning YouTube poetry promotion channel Just Another Poet.
This is a free, in person event and there is no need to register.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Oct 2024 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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