Phillippa Yaa de Villiers is an award winning South African writer and performance artist. Phillippa, who is mixed race, was adopted as a baby by a white couple but did not learn of her adoption until ...

On the 8th of November, 2024: I had the pleasure of meeting Imtiaz Dharker, internationally famous poet and Chancellor of Newcastle University (you may recognise her from her poem Tissue, on the GCSE ...

Listeners and budding composers across the country are invited to write a brand new Christmas Carol, as this year’s BBC Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition launches on Monday 2 September. It is always ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Chester Literature Festival kicked off at the weekend, over 120 events will ...

Occasionally I get a phone call from them asking my nationality. When they hear I’m a British national, they say thanks and hang up. Born in Lahore, raised in Glasgow, did you always feel an outsider ...

Dharker (Luck Is the Hook) combines her poetry and drawings to deliver an exquisite and complex vision of exile, immigration, and adopted homelands. The poems go beyond simple ekphrasis to consider ...

On Valentine's Day, the award-winning poet talks about her favourite love poems and writing tips for those who want to compose something for the person they love today. Show more The award-winning ...

Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist, and documentary film-maker. Her books of poetry, illustrated with her drawings, Postcards from God (1997) and I Speak for the Devil (2001), are published by Bloodaxe ...