Occasionally I get a phone call from them asking my nationality. When they hear I’m a British national, they say thanks and hang up. Born in Lahore, raised in Glasgow, did you always feel an outsider ...

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Phillippa Yaa de Villiers is an award winning South African writer and performance artist. Phillippa, who is mixed race, was adopted as a baby by a white couple but did not learn of her adoption until ...

On the 8th of November, 2024: I had the pleasure of meeting Imtiaz Dharker, internationally famous poet and Chancellor of Newcastle University (you may recognise her from her poem Tissue, on the GCSE ...

Dharker (Luck Is the Hook) combines her poetry and drawings to deliver an exquisite and complex vision of exile, immigration, and adopted homelands. The poems go beyond simple ekphrasis to consider ...

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Rosie Jones, Janeane Garofalo and Jenni Fagan on stage at the Edinburgh Festival Live from Edinburgh with drag act Denim, Maggie O'Farrell, Penelope Skinner and Terry O'Donovan Brian May and Professor ...