Life Stories Cafe True Storytelling Event Friday 11 May 2012 7pm-8.30pm
Please Note: This Event Has Been Cancelled
Dorothea Smartt (Emcee) Marcus Reeves, Malika Booker, Zena Edwards, Kadija (George) Sesay, Patrick McIntosh
Theme: 'Womb' Fee: £5. Booking advised.
Poet and author Dorothea Smartt hosts at our regular true storytelling event. Book your spot, join the fun, and experience what true storytelling feels, looks and sounds like. To book, please scroll to the bottom of this page
Dorothea Smartt
Dorothea, a respected Black British poet of Barbadian heritage, is ‘among the best of her generation’. She enjoys working with visual imagery. Most recently anthologised in “Red” [Peepal Tree Press, 2010], her latest collection is “Ship Shape” [PTP, 2008]. She regularly reads internationally, and most recently at Derbyshire literature festival and Exeter Poetry Festival. She is poetry editor for SABLE Litmag, and Co-Director of Inscribe, writer development project. Photo credit: Naomi Woddis
Malika Booker
Malika Booker is a British writer of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage. Her poems are widely published in anthologies and journals including: Ten New Poets (Bloodaxe, 2010) the India International Journal 2005, Bittersweet: Contemporary Black Women’s Poetry (The Women’s Press, 1998). Her one-woman show Unplanned, toured nationwide throughout 2007. Her collection Breadfruit was published by flippedeye in 2008, and recommended by the Poetry Book Society. She was the first Poet in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company and is currently working on her first full-length poetry collection. Photo credit: Naomi Woddis
Kadija George
Kadija (George) Sesay is a literary activist, editor and publisher of Sierra Leonean descent. In 2001, she became founder and managing editor of Sable magazine. Kadija has edited several anthologies of work including Dreams Miracles and Jazz: New Adventures in African Fiction (Picador Africa) edited with Helon Habila and is the series editor of the Inscribe imprint for (Peepal Tree Press). She is an Associate Editor for Callaloo and the editor of a new fiction imprint for Amalion Publishing in Senegal. She is working on her first poetry collection, Irki (which means ‘Homeland’ in the Nubian language). http://discoveryourfuture.wordpress.com Photo credit: Victor Dlamini
Marcus Reeves
Writer-performer, singer-songwriter and cabaret artist Marcus Reeves has performed across London at venues including The Troubadour, The Drill Hall, BAC, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, Turnmills, Soho Revue Bar and the Twentieth Century Theatre.Alongside his performance work, Marcus is perhaps best known for writing the book, lyrics and score for Postcards from God - The Sister Wendy Musical, which has been presented at Jermyn Street Theatre in London's West End and at Hackney Empire Studio Theatre. 'A new Tim Rice' - Elaine Paige
