Caribbean Nights – Lyra Poetry Festival

Heron Books will be bookselling at this fascinating event, part of the Lyra Poetry Festival

https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/12523/caribbean-nights-poetry

In the 1980s the UK had little idea of the wealth of poetry coming from the Caribbean. In 1986, the BBC’s thought-provoking Arena film Caribbean Nights: Poetry changed all that.

The film features Trinidadian intellectual Darcus Howe chairing an illuminating discussion with St Lucian poet Derek Walcott (1992 Nobel Prize for Literature), pioneering British-Jamaican reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson and emerging British-Guyanese poet Fred D’Aguiar.

Followed by a talk with poet and editor Rishi Dastidar, 2023 TS Eliot Prize winner Anthony Joseph, Louisa Adjoa Parker, and Bristol academic Madhu Krishnan.

Helen Thomas will then read a new poem inspired by the film.