Ehiorobo Derek, Kyle Okeke are Evaristo Prize for African Poetry 2024 joint winners
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We’re a charity awarding £1,000 grants to people of colour based in the UK who want to bring a new creative project to life. We support creativity in all its forms including: poetry, paintings, fashion, zines, music, food, flowers, photographs, workshops, events or something else completely. Applications are now open until 7th May, 6pm! Who can apply? To apply, you need to identify as Black, Asian, Brown and/or part of the Global Majority aged 18 or over and based in the UK. For all other information and tips on making the best application possible – you can find detailed application…
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OPPORTUNITY:INTRODUCING THE BLACK POETS MASTERCLASS SERIES. Obsidian Foundation is proud to announce the Black Poets Masterclass Series in partnership with Arvon, Royal Society of Literature, The National Poetry Library and The Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society. From May to December 2023, four award-winning poets, Dzifa Benson, Anthony Joseph, Karen McCarthy Woolf and Jason Allen-Paisant will explore four distinct areas of the Black poetry canon, looking at Black writers past and present from Africa, the US, the Caribbean and the UK. Join us over the course of 8 months for a deep dive into the Black poetry canon, equipping you to explore what a decolonised poetry canon might look like and…
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Olayinka Yaqub Wins the 2023 Awele Creative Trust Award
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This event signifies a renewed interest in the spoken word and demonstrates the transformative potential of poetry in the digital age.
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Judges praised the ‘imaginative capacity and technical flair’ of a collection that draws connections between Shakespeare’s hero and today’s immigrants Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant has won this year’s TS Eliot prize for Self-Portrait As Othello, his collection exploring Black masculinity and immigrant identity. Allen-Paisant was announced as the winner of the £25,000 award during a ceremony at the Wallace Collection in London. “Self-Portrait As Othello is a book with large ambitions that are met with great imaginative capacity, freshness and technical flair,” said the judging panel, made up of the poets Paul Muldoon, Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul. The best…
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Image Caption: Performers at the "Folklore and Gyration of the Oppressed" event at the Lagos International Poetry Festival.
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Badmus, in this collection of poems, unfurls the undulant currents of love amidst the slippery rails of romance; tilling the shoal of lust and other plains of emotions in fine locutions. He preened up the premise of affectations in an auspicious sophistry; beaming searchlights on the myriads of neurodivergent claim of proposals and oaths yelped by love birds on the cusp of consummating a salacious nudge. Badmus unbracketed some literary devices to outline the flakes of human responses to pain and the weight of love, while interrogating the fairness of honest hits on objects of affection as against reloading the…
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Muyiwa Babayomi Alkebulan, mother, ancient canvas of our collective soul, Land where the dawn first smiles, gifting light to kings and queens, Our hands once held the wealth of soil, planting wisdom like seeds. Where the baobabs stand, proud and free, under skies vast and forgiving. Do you recall, Alkebulan, the first shadow that fell upon our land? A shroud not of night but of greed, then chains fell across our fields and rivers, Inch by inch, they sought to take our spirit, our gold, our very essence. Yet, from the depths, where our roots kiss the earth’s core, our…
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Professor Adimora-Ezeigbo urged the judges to elevate literature as a catalyst for national development. With poetry in focus this year, the Nigeria Prize for Literature continues to celebrate and reward outstanding literary achievements, reaffirming its commitment to nurturing Nigeria's rich literary landscape.
