Centre for Migration and Postcolonial Studies | https://teapawt.org/t.co/qKkY8bSpp6
Manchester, UK
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MAPS are truly delighted and relieved to announce that our *twice* postponed symposium is now definitely going ahead! Tuesday 18th April. Book your place here. eventbrite.co.uk/e/testimony… @MMUEnglishDept
We are very pleased to announce a new date for
Testimony and the Postcolonial: A Symposium
Now on Wednesday 9th November 12.30-5pm. Grosvenor East Building 4.04, All Saints, Manchester Metropolitan University.
eventbrite.co.uk/e/testimony…
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We are excited to be partnering with our neighbour @ContactMcr just along Oxford Road for the More Fiya event tmw night 22 Oct 7pm.
Six poets read from a scorching anthology that brings together a selection of exceptional Black British poets with @McrLitFest and @McrPoetryLib
Be sure to book your place at the More Fiya event on 22nd October as part of @McrLitFest for a night of exciting live performances from @JackieKayPoet, @Malikabooker, @jallenpaisant, @rommismith and @Keke_Thom, hosted by Kayo Chingonyi.
contactmcr.com/shows/more-fi…
Congratulations to Shehan Karunatilaka @ShehanKaru on this wonderful news!
We are delighted to announce that the WINNER of the #BookerPrize2022 is ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida ’ by Shehan Karunatilaka.
Discover more about the winning book: thebookerprizes.com/the-book…
@shehankaru @sortofbooks @ShahidhaBari @hrcastor @amabanckou @mjohnharrison
We are delighted to announce that MAPS director Professor Minoli Salgado will give her inaugural lecture next Thursday 20th October 5:30-7:00pm. Unsettling Truths: The Migrant Writer as Creative Witness. Register your attendance below. eventbrite.com/e/43075653338…
We are delighted to announce our upcoming symposium,Testimony and the Postcolonial, on Monday 19th September, followed by Professor Minoli Salgado’s book launch @McrPoetryLib In person or online attendance possible. Details and registration below @MMUEnglishDept @McrWritingSchl
Looking forward to listening to papers by Sonya Andermahr, @PocoLCMoore, Henghameh Saroukhani, Agnes Woolley, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh and Minoli Salgado.
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Manchester Poetry Library are hosting the North West launch of Words of Colour’s My Words, an exciting new digital exhibition spotlighting the cultural contribution of poets of colour in Britain over 250 years. 14 Sept, 6pm. Book your free tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-words-…
Congratulations Monique! @moniqueroffey
Congratulations Malika! @Malikabooker
This Friday at 7pm you can hear our Prof Minoli Salgado discussing her book in Brighton. Book your ticket here. @McrWritingSchl @MMUEnglishDept eventbrite.co.uk/e/twelve-cr…
Looking forward to this wonderful event tonight @McrPoetryLib where @anaffissahely will be reading from his collection High Desert.
High Desert is a psychedelic journal of end-times and an ode to the American Southwest.
Join us on 28 June for the launch of @anaffissahely's collection, with readings and discussion with @oriordanadam
Doors will open from 6.30 pm with drinks provided!
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We are pleased to inform that the final schedule of our June 2022 conference, "Imposition of Power: Quest for Identity" (ONLINE), is now out in the world!!
Please register to secure your place at this amazing intersectional international conference -- surl.li/ccrta
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"The librarian is a radical on our high street. The librarian is connected to the community. Information is power and that's what a librarian is doing every day of their lives. I think of librarians as a very important symbol of democracy"
- @lemnsissay, #FestivalofLibraries 🎉
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Wonderful to hear from @AMcMillanPoet tonight from @McrPoetryLib as we hear poems from brand new collection #100QueerPoems for the #FestivalofLibraries.
"Libraries provide a space to enter into a conversation about words and ideas" - @Becky_Swain
An indispensable read: The Black in the Mediterranean Blue, special issue of Transition Magazine
Guest-edited by long-time editorial board chairman and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, alongside scholar Alessandra Di Maio, Transition Magazine’s groundbreaking 60th-anniversary issue 132: The Black in the Mediterranean Blue is here. muse.jhu.edu/issue/47952
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Making Artistic Sense or Trauma - our Professor of International Writing Minoli Salgado is taking part in this event @KingsCollegeLon next week. Book here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-ar…
This is a fantastic opportunity to learn from @anaffissahely later this month @McrPoetryLib and to hear him read from High Desert.
Our Writing About Labour Rights workshop with @anaffissahely will instruct on how the labour movement has been written about by workers.
It will also take place before our celebration of his poetry collection High Desert at 7pm.
Find out more here! 👇
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Prof. Minoli Salgado will be speaking at ‘Making Artistic sense of Trauma’, repeaterbooks.com/meetup-eve… at King’s College London on 14th June at 6.30 pm
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Congratulations to @PeterRammPoet and @leoneross who are this years Manchester Writing Competition winners 📣📣 @McrWritingSchl @ManMetUni
Thanks also to all the stunning poets who were shortlisted. Your readings this evening were exceptional 💫
