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  • From the Guardian

    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

  • broadcasting

    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

  • book review

    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

  • book review – travel writing

    I reviewed “Island People” by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro in the Observer, Sunday 5th February 2017.  Read more

  • Interview in the Observer

    Interview in the Observer

    I interviewed writer and actor Karl Geary for the Observer’s New Faces of Fiction 2017 feature, published on 22nd January 2017. Read more

  • Article in the Guardian

    Article in the Guardian

    My feature published in the Guardian on Christmas Eve, 24th December 2016, exploring growing up between cultures and how storytelling can be the greatest of all gifts. “How we embraced Christmas” Read more