Remember to tune in to the online screening of Your Local Arena Caribbean Nights: Poetry which the GPI is co-hosting as part of a Lucy Hannah and Speaking Volumes co- production. We’re excited to be a part of revisting the BBC’s 1986 seminal program Caribbean Nights: Poetry from its Arena series. With fresh perspectives from contemporary writers of Caribbean heritage as well as exclusive and new commissioned poems plus a life writing workshop, this will be a full feast!

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On what would have been the pioneering poet Kamau Brathwaite’s 90th birthday today, the GPI in collaboration with Lucy Hannah and Speaking Volumes launches publicity for an exciting production! Your Local Arena is a Lucy Hannah and Speaking Volumes co-production featuring BBC’s Arena film archive. It is funded by Arts Council England.

Caribbean Nights: Poetry 

Representation at the funeral of Edward Kamau Brathwaite 21st

Greetings to all supporters, researchers and other participants in GPI activities, 

Please click on the link below to listen to Kamau Brathwaite’s poem Negus rendered by friend and fellow poet Linton Kwesi Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhE0orPEkOI