Writing Our Legacy is a growing collective of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) writers, poets, playwrights and authors connected to Sussex and the South East. They recently teamed up with Brighton & Hove Libraries to present a Black History Month Creative Writing Workshop with Nigerian-German writerOlumide Popoola. Writing Our […]
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Poetry gets a bad rep; the poems we do at GCSE rarely connect us to the author. Whilst I read incredible works of poetic fiction, they always left 16-year-old me feeling distanced from the page. That was, until I watched spoken word performances, and later read the writings of Andrea […]
The Verse’s Konstantina Gkertsou showcases her poem ‘Playing the player’s game’ for us. He has the smell of a rainy night,An aroma mixed with every toxic habit,Sweet and forbidden,As if it was warning you of the danger. While you get lost in the rhythm,Move your hips against hisMake your fantasies […]
The Verse’s Kate Mager reviews Bang Said the Gun at the Brighton Festival, to find out if it really delivers ‘poetry for people who don’t like poetry.’ As the self-proclaimed ‘rowdiest poetry event in the universe’, ‘Bang said the Gun’ offers an evening of raucous behaviour and laughter intertwined with […]
The Verse’s Charlotte Crane takes us through the upcoming Brighton Festival 2018, following the press launch on 15th February. This year’s Brighton Festival is set to be a heart-warming and diverse celebration of the attitudes and culture that make our city so special. At the Festival press launch yesterday morning, […]
