🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus
@RaymondAntrobus
Hackney Boy & Author of ‘To Sweeten Bitter’, ‘The Perseverance’ ‘All The Names Given’ & children’s picture book, ‘Can Bears Ski?’. He/Him.
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I’ll be sharing new writing as part of my Writer-In-Residence Whitechapel Gallery at 7pm tomorrow evening (thursday 17th). Come through 💙🌊🫧 whitechapelgallery.org/events/bodies-…
On this week’s BBC World Service Pick of the World with Anna Doble we’ve fantastic audio from Kalki केकला 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus Sadio Mané Chris Stringer Zoe Kleinman Rebecca Kesby💙 Isaac Fanin Gaurav Vaz All Things Small Hannah Bewley Ant Adeane 09.32 GMT bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…
Emily Brenchi ♿️🏳️🌈 and I made a short video with Helen Dewbery for the WM Readers' Network introducing readers to 5 books of poetry by D/deaf, disabled, and chronically ill poets 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus Dr Betty Doyle Polly Atkin Khairani Barokka and Rachael Boast - hope you enjoy!
youtu.be/ePjt9C5lfo8
It is such an incredible honour for me to be included in the AQA GCSE English Literature syllabus. I remember how important the poets I studied in school were to me.A big thank you to all involved. #godruleseverythingaroundme #syllabus #gcse #poetry #blackbritishwriters #
Bit late but just got told my radio doc with producer Ant Adeane made Picks of the week in The Observer. Thanks to everyone that has tuned in / watched / listened so far…catch it here bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…
Looking forward to this session with 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus and Omar Bin Musa for Lagos Poetry Festival.
This conversation and reading will be amazing.
We're hoping to get this one to print over the next half term. It takes a while to secure copyright on 150 poems this good! Includes 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 lemn sissay OBE FRSL Hollie McNish Robert Macfarlane warsan shire + many, many more
englishandmedia.co.uk/publications/e…
This poem is a risk I would not have taken had Amit Majmudar not given me this title. Grateful to him, and grateful, too, to the generous crew Contemporary Verse 2, including EIC @cpetersp, for giving it a home.
Talking polylingual creativities as liberatory practice with the wonderful 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus & Anwuli Ojogwu Lagos Poetry Festival
[The Documentary Podcast] Recaptive number 11,407 #theDocumentaryPodcast
podcastaddict.com/episode/147311… via Podcast Addict
BBC World Service 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus
An astonishing series of documents in #SierraLeone named the #Registers of #LiberatedAfricans record details of Africans freed
Recaptive Number 11407, a documentary by 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus out on BBC World Service now. It's a story Ray has been thinking about for years, after reading a passage in David Olusoga's Black and British about some books in Sierra Leone called the Registers of Liberated Africans
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Today 18:15
BBC Radio 4
Clive Anderson and Andrew O’Neill ☉ are joined by Craig Cash, Alex Kapranos, Miquita Oliver, 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus and Dan Schreiber for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Unthanks.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…