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Tag: Peepal Tree Press

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.’

9th November 202111th November 2021  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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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Anansi, anti-racism, Boer War, colonialism, Hip Hop, Interview, Jazz, Marvin Thompson, National Poetry Prize, Peepal Tree Press, Poetry, Racism, Road Trip, Shameera Nair Lin

Road Trip by Marvin Thompson – the start of a long and beautiful journey

17th February 202117th February 2021  Shameera Nair Lin

Multiple voices, viewpoints and experiences combine to make Marvin Thompson’s poetry collection, Road Trip, a powerful, sensitive and unforgettable read, writes our contributor, Shameera Nair Lin.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Consent, family, Jazz, Marvin Thompson, Peepal Tree Press, Poetry, poetry collection, prose poems, Road Trip

The Sea Needs No Ornament/ El mar no necesita ornamento: in conversation with translators Loretta Collins Klobah and Maria Grau Perejoan

20th December 202010th March 2021  Elodie Rose Barnes

Elodie Rose Barnes explores the epic English and Spanish poetry anthology, The Sea Needs No Ornament / El mar no necesita ornamento, and talks to its translators, Loretta Collins Klobah and Maria Grau Perejoan, about the translation process, empowering women writers from the Caribbean and the literary history behind the poems.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: anthology, Bilingual, caribbean, Caribbean literature, Creole, El mar no necesita ornamento, Elodie Rose Barnes, English, Languages, Life in Languages, Loretta Collins Klobah, Maria Grau Perejoan, Peepal Tree Press, Spanish, The Sea Needs No Ornament, Translation, women poets
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    By Laetitia Erskine
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    By Rebecca Clark
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    By JP Seabright
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