photo: Keshia Abraham
Derbyshire Literature Festival
Thursday 3rd June 2010
2:30-3:30pm
Dronfield Library
7-8:30pm
Strutts North Mill, Belper
Tel: 08456 058 058
Email: contact.centre@derbyshire.gov.uk
Launch Reading for Magma 47
7.30pm Monday 21 June 2010
Coffee-House Poetry Series @Troubadour
265 Brompton Road
London SW5 9JA
Tel: 0207 370 1434
Chester Oyez!
12:30pm Saturday 10th October 2009
Bishop Lloyd’s Palace
51 – 53 Watergate Row South
Chester
Cheshire
CH1 2LE
Tel: 01244 405605
Morley Literature Festival 2009
Visiting Poet, Schools Programme
Manchester Literature Festival
1pm Thursday 15th October 2009
Manchester Central Library, Committee Room
St Peter’s Square
Manchester
M2 5PD
Tel: 0843 208 0500
Artlink
7:30pm Friday 23rd October 2009
87 Princes Avenue
Hull HU5
Tel: 01482 345 104
Off The Shelf Festival Of Writing And Reading
8pm Thursday 29th October 2009
The Hubs
Paternoster Row
Sheffield
S1 2BX
Tel: 0114 275 7727
Poetry Workshop: Full Circle African Writers Abroad
2:30pm to 5:30pm Saturday 7th November 2009
A 100 Days event – part of Arnolfini’s Artist/Activist season
PLATFORM and collaborators present C Words: Carbon, Climate, Capital, Culture, a major exhibition and season of 50 events in the run-up to COP
Arnolfili
16 Narrow Quay
Bristol BS1 4QA
Tel: 0117 917 2300
With thanks to A. Robinson (and Amazon), dx
AMAZON Customer Review
5.0 out of 5 stars
Accessible, exciting poetry with something to say!
25 Jun 2009
By A. Robinson “BiographyBinger” (Oxford, UK)
I stumbled across Dorothea Smartt online by chance… and I’ve never looked back. I’m not a big poetry buff but what I love about this, is it’s not over sentimental… it has something to say. As a mixed race woman growing up in Britain I can identify with her characters and stories.
I personally think this should be made one of the recommended GCSE texts. This is an excellent representation of a successful articulate (something i’m not when writing this at 5.30am!) black British woman, a role model who should be used to engage young teenagers, especially those from BME backgrounds, with poetry. This poetry ‘speaks’ to you, young or old. Its not just for minority groups, as the poetry spans several subject matters… family, slavery, feminism, and concepts of beauty. Dorothea uses different ‘voices’, either British or Caribbean alongside tone, rhythm and rhyme which create a variety of literary textures.
I am not into poetry. I bought this book, then ordered Connecting Medium (which was a longer wait as its an older print – but I set aside my impatience because this book was so good). I have 3 poetry books. 2 are by Dorothea Smartt.
I’m currently in Jo’Burg. Going to see 1-Woman show in Pretoria later – Phillippa Yaa DeVilliers ORIGINAL SKIN – she’s a fab poet who was recently in UK with Beyond Words… I’m havin a gr8 time mtg writers here… Was guest poet at Cape Town’s Badilisha Poetry XChange for a wk. & now scoping out more local writers here & in Durban! blessings, dx