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Book review
My book review of PUSSY by Howard Jacobson, published in the i paper on Friday 14th April. Click here to read it. Read more
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From the Guardian
I interviewed the writer Edward Docx – published in The Guardian on Saturday 22nd April Click here to read more ‘Now I never feel trapped by identity’ Interview with Edward Docx When Edward Docx was 13 years old, his grandmother lay on her deathbed at the family home in Greater Manchester and made a Read more
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broadcasting – Radio 4 appearance
I appeared on BBC Radio 4 speaking about Derek Walcott and Caribbean literature. You can listen in at the podcast now up on BBC iPlayer: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08jf2jz Read more
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From the Guardian
I wrote an obituary of the Nobel Prize winning poet Derek Walcott, published in The Guardian, Saturday 18th March A favourite Walcott poem of mine is “Love After Love” which you can read here. Read more
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broadcasting
I appeared as a critic and commentator on the BBC World Service on 1st March 2017, live from Broadcasting House and on Periscope, commentating on the Obamas’ new book deal with Penguin Random House. Read more
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book review
Review (published Friday 24th February, i paper) Three Daughters of Eve By Elif Shafak Viking, £14.99 “Motherlands are beloved, no doubt; sometimes they can also be exasperating and maddening. Yet I have also come to learn that for writers and poets for whom national borders and cultural barriers are there to be questioned, again and Read more
