Tag: National Poetry Prize

Interview with prize-winning poet Marvin Thompson: ‘I’m used to living in a world where those who have been lauded down the centuries don’t look like me.’

  Shameera Nair Lin

Shameera Nair Lin talks to the National Poetry Prize winning poet Marvin Thompson about his musical inspirations, exploring British colonial violence and racism in his work, the lack of representation in nature writing and conquering poetic forms like the villanelle.

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