#blackbritishwriters

[ceceilsdaughter]

And after this journey I arrive to her with a heavy tongue and new aches. She watches, as I stumble to new beginnings breathless. She asks me to tell her my story, so I tell her, with shallow breaths, how aches became bruises and bruises became doubt - this journey too heavy and too loud and maybe, too long. She made my words echo, each sound lining the walls of my ears, making my eyes sting with fresh tears. “Reimagine”. She tells me. “Reimagine.” Collection: The Watcher, The Listener, and The Orator. “Vessels for your stories secrets.” By @linairisviktor

[susandoram]

I recently had a chat with Rupal Rajani about the anthology ‘Create Together, Our Voices, Our Hands, Our Lives.’ which features a few pieces of my written work.  Here’s the video of what we talked about. 

[motherbookerblog]

Just a few of the new titles I’ve added to my Kindle this week. It occurred to me too late that I should have found somewhere better than Amazon to buy them. To make up for it, I’ve donated as much as possible to some Anti-racist charities. In future, I’ll find a more worthy company to buy from. 📚 My Instagram

[pjmendez]

Keith Jarrett SELAH Burning Eye Books (2017) A seamless blending of the relatively unreconciled descriptors of queer and, for the sake of the ethnicity box, “Black British Caribbean”. In the brilliant opening poem “Acknowledgements”, @keithjlondon speaks (he is a revered slam poet) of “glitterproof ribs... that caved under the shadows of parental disapproval / we with pockets made of hand-me-down wounds”. His narrator contends with home-ophobia (mine, deliberate), gentrification, fair-weather allies and barbershop role models (though thanks are given to Frantz Fanon, Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall, bell hooks and CLR James). Generations of family history become overwhelmingly present-tense in a trip to Jamaica, and in the “diabetic rot” of his dying grandfather’s feet. With tenderness and wit, he challenges expectations of his output in “A Gay Poem”: “Excuse me – poem – are you gay? / Have you grown up contrarily / to what I wanted you to say? / I mean, I certainly didn’t write you that way”. #keithjarrett #poetry #blackbritishwriting #burningeyebooks #queerwriting #gaystheword #gaysthewordbookshop #100booksinayear #100bookschallenge #100booksfor2019 https://www.instagram.com/p/BwpxSdDFeI_/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6025zhn52agt

[18thcenturylove]

Happy Birthday to Olaudah Equiano!

[behavingwhileblack]

Finally getting around to reading this book. Picked it up at my neighborhood library...support your local library branch!! #brooklynpubliclibrary #bpl #fuckyoebook #zadiesmith #nw #blackbritishwriters

[motherbookerblog]

QUESTION: Have you added any new authors to your TBR pile recently? 📚 As well as signing petitions, donating money, and using your voice to speak out about racism, it’s important to keep this fight going in more subtle ways. Use more businesses run by Black people, watch more movies by Black directors, and read more books by Black authors. I’m committing to reading more Black authors, particularly British ones. 📚 If you’re looking for some suggestions, here of some of my favourites and some who I’ve just added to my TBR pile. Obviously, there are plenty more out there worthy of note. 📚 My Instagram

[lifeinthenude]

“trust” by nina south. • • • #love #trust #thebest #writer #poetsofig #writersofinstagram #ninasouth #ninasouthpoetry #blackbritishwriter #qpoc #poemas #blackpoetsociety #poetry #poemoftheday #poetsofinstagram #londonpoets https://www.instagram.com/p/BvV6GFxBpdp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=w97kykjqo8zv

[lifeinthenude]

“trust” by nina south. • • • #love #trust #thebest #writer #poetsofig #writersofinstagram #ninasouth #ninasouthpoetry #blackbritishwriter #qpoc #poemas #blackpoetsociety #poetry #poemoftheday #poetsofinstagram #londonpoets https://www.instagram.com/p/BvV51BtBwmi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5gm724pqfo9x

[motherbookerblog]

“It is the pictures in the bible that fool you. The pictures that illustrate the words. All of the people are white and so you just think all the people from the bible were white too. But really white people lived somewhere else during those times.” – Alice Walker, The Color Purple 📚 You can’t have a real conversation about race in literature without talking about The Color Purple. This is the copy I used when I studied it 16 years ago. I had my problems with it at the time but it’s hard to deny how important it is regarding race and women. 📚 My Instagram

[motherbookerblog]

“It’s not the whiteness itself that sets Them against Us, but the worship of whiteness… we beat Them (and spare ourselves a lot of tedium and terror) by declining to worship it.” 📚 It’s been a few years since I read Boy, Snow, Bird but I’ve never been able to forget it. It’s definitely something I want to reread at some point. It’s loosely based on Snow White but deals with race and racism in a brilliant way. It also discusses gender, beauty, and women. It’s such a haunting tale that deals with horrifying topics in such a gentle way. I’ve got some issues with the reveal at the end but, for the most part, this book is perfect. 📚 My Instagram