by Prerana Kumar | Jun 30, 2023 | Reviews
Improvised Explosive Device by Arji Manuelpillai Penned in the Margins (106 pages of poetry) The first time I heard a poem by Arji Manuelpillai, he was reading from this collection on BBC Radio 3’s ‘The Verb’. The poem was called ‘Ways of Being Heard’, and I...
by Prerana Kumar | Jun 30, 2023 | Featured, Prose
Canary Wharf Outside, in the plaza, men march forward. Women change from trainers to work heels. Gardeners rip out rows of wilting flowers. The news scrolls like a river round the Reuters building. No Police...
by Kate Birch | Jun 29, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
UPRISING & RESISTANCE IS OUR NEW TITLE PRODUCED IN CONJUNCTION WITH SPREAD THE WORD AND BLACK BEYOND DATA’S MELLON FOUNDATION FUNDED UNDERWRITING SOULS PROJECT. These poems from featured poets Keith Jarrett, Remi Graves, Courtney Conrad and malakaï sargeant...
by Kate Birch | Jun 29, 2023 | Word & Image
This is one of Jess Nash’s images from our anthology Uprising & Resistance, produced in conjunction with Spread the Word and the Black Beyond Data Mellon Foundation funded project, Underwriting Souls. These works respond to historical archives and objects...
by Kate Birch | Jun 29, 2023 | Word & Image
This image, the central canvas or Canvas Two from Levi Naidu-Mitchell’s triptych, takes place metaphorically in the Middle Passage, displaying the Mangrove tree: ‘A concrete yet unruly and powerful plant, able to adapt in the worst of conditions, it acts...
