The Colour Line Knut Odegaard

The Colour Line Knut OdegaardIt was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life was especially tough for Black women, but she didnt let that stop her. The daughter of a Native American woman and an African Haitian man, Lafanu had the rare opportunity to study, travel, and follow her dreams, thanks to her indomitable spirit, but not without facing intolerance and violence. Now, in 1887,

adrift in a territory where intellectual protest has been stripped of ideological impetus and subsumed by the voraciousness of the market

I boil my fathers penis

Michael Horovitz bringing thousands to hear “poetry of the underground”

It is also an anti-epic

from blues to bluegrass to punk to jazz

Thorn Gruin

Rebecca Swift

Dressing for the Afterlife is a diamond-tough and tender second collection of poems from British Cypriot poet Maria Taylor

A decade on

handsome and ‘black’ and working-class

Warren Zevon

This is beautiful writing to savour beyond place and time