Read Jay Bernard’s ‘England Street (Reggae fi Linton)’, commissioned to celebrate Linton Kwesi Johnson winning the 2020 PEN Pinter Prize. Featuring a specially commissioned introduction to the poem from Jay.
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Latinx Letters: An Interview with Leo Boix
Leo Boix discusses bilingualism, British Latinx poetry, and race in Latin America.
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Poetry’s Democracy: An Interview with Anthony Anaxagorou
Anthony Anaxagorou – poet, writer, publisher and educator – discusses spoken word after COVID-19, Cyprus, and poetry in the age of social media.
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Being Seen: Dean Atta in Conversation with Keith Jarrett
As part of our Digital Literary Salon, Dean Atta speaks to Keith Jarrett about queer black British experience, schools, and writing for teens.
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Always Against the Idols: A Conversation with Chus Pato and Erín Moure
Galician poet Chus Pato and Canadian poet and translator Erín Moure discuss collaboration, Francoism, language rights and iconoclasm. PEN Transmissions is English PEN’s magazine for international and translated voices. PEN’s members are the backbone of our work, helping us to support international literature, campaign for writers at risk, and advocate for the freedom to write…
Read MoreNature bubbling out: a conversation with Mahvash Sabet
I never consciously make a decision about what to say in a poem: the poem itself says itself. So the poem happens. It doesn’t happen because I have decided that it should happen. It wasn’t a conscious decision to write about nature. The nature just bubbled out.
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