by Administrator | May 16, 2022 | Readers & Writers
If we search our memory’s recesses, I’m sure we can all recall a time when Latin letterforms were indecipherable, abstract and complex artworks we had to learn by rote; 52 signs (upper & lower case) with no referent in the real world that could, as if by magic,...
by Administrator | Feb 17, 2022 | Quick Reads
Just over a year ago, I remember going on Facebook and seeing a post advertising for a position called ‘Youth Advisory Board Member’ with Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, otherwise informally known as NUCoL. Little did I know I would still be here in the role,...
by Administrator | Dec 13, 2021 | Readers & Writers
Box I was once told I was special Put inside facing the outside world Live inside till you’re old or dead Just a creature to be looked at and stroked Others rolled on their bellies, I sat growling I was once told I was special What are doing they said We get fed here...
by Administrator | Sep 13, 2021 | Readers & Writers
“If what we see and experience, if our country, does not become real in imagination, then it never can become real to us, and we are forever divided from it… Imagination is a particularizing and a local force, native to the ground underfoot” – Wendell...
by Administrator | Sep 9, 2021 | Readers & Writers
It’s been nearly exactly 50 years since Mrs Jai Verma first arrived in the UK, following her doctor husband, and with an infant daughter in tow. She now heads up one of the longest running and prolific poetry groups in the region: Kavya Rang (‘Colours of Poetry’), and...