2005
Summary of events in 2005
- London launch of A Meeting of the Continents: The International
Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books 1982-95 – Revisited
with poet Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, poet Zena Edwards, GPI Trustee and
academic Roxy Harris, Linton Kwesi Johnson, poet Parm Kaur, novelist
Lawrence Scott, with music by flautist Keith Waithe
- Leeds
launch of A Meeting of the Continents with academic Max Farrar,
novelist Manzu Islam, Professor Gus John, poet Linton Kwesi Johnson,
Malawian poet Jack Mapanje, novelist Marina Lewycka, poet Rommi Smith
- Launch of the new book of poetry, Born to Slow Horses, by Barbadian poet and writer Kamau Brathwaite
- Launch of novel by Pat Haward, Do I Have to Kneel?
- Seminar on Sudan After Garang, led by GPI Trustee Ali Hussein
- Jamaican
academic Carolyn Cooper in conversation with Linton Kwesi Johnson to
discuss her latest book, Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at
Large
- Readings by Jamaican poets Mervyn Morris and Mutabaruka
