Malika Booker is an international writer whose work is steeped in anthropological research methodology and rooted in storytelling. Her writing spans poetry, theatre, monologue, installation, and education. Clients and organisations she has worked with include Arts Council England, BBC, British Council, Wellcome Trust, National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Arvon, and Hampton Court Palace. Malika delivers local and international workshops and education programmes for clients and organisations from British Council, through to Westminster University and Hampton Court Palace. She also co-founded Malika’s Poetry Kitchen in 2001 to create a nourishing and encouraging community of writers dedicated to the development of their writing craft. Now a firmly established writers collective based in London it offers bi-weekly writers surgeries and has supported writers including Inua Ellams, Warsan Shire and Aoife Mannix with guest tutors including Kwame Dawes, Fred D’Aguiar and Bernardine Evaristo. The organisation has inspired Malika’s Poetry Kitchen models worldwide from Chicago to Delhi.
Malika Booker
All Sessions by Malika Booker
-
Day 2
16th October 2021
-
13:00
Reading and Discussion: Obsidian Presents - Raymond Antrobus 'All the Names Given'
13:00 - 14:00Poetry is a space of dissonance and reckoning. In this event presented by the Obsidian Foundation, a retreat for black poets of African descent who want to advance their writing practice, Raymond Antrobus does us the unique honour of launching his most recent publication, All the Names Given.
Antrobus's accolades are endless: In 2019 he became the first ever poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre. He has been shortlisted for the Griffin Prize and Forward Prize and also received the Ted Hughes Award, The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, PBS Winter Choice, A Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, Somerset Maugham Award and The Guardian Poetry Book Of The Year Award. He is the recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem, Complete Works 3, Jerwood Compton and the Royal Society of Literature. He is also one of the world's first recipients of an MA in Spoken Word Education from Goldsmiths University.
Join us as Antrobus's friends, Malika Booker and Nick Makoha, launch All the Names Given, interrogating identity, language, memory, place, and (mis)communication. This event will be BSL signed.
BUY TICKETSArtist Talks & Installations / Readings & DiscussionsHeadliners / Performance ShowcasesWhereAnatomy
-
Day 3
17th October 2021
-
11:00
Reading and Discussion: What's the point of poetry when the world's collapsing?
11:00 - 12:00We live in times of unprecedented crises, from the pandemic we've endured to the ecological devastation around us. What is the point of poetry when the world is collapsing? Can poetry help us to navigate climate doom, and maybe even help us change course? Can poetry help us understand the complexity of the world around us, help us hold nuance, shine a light on inequalities, console our grief and spur us on? Or is at all just a load of words? Poets Don Paterson, Malika Booker and Kate Fox explore the role of poetry in interesting times, looking at the very particular crises through which we're navigating our boats at present.
This event will be BSL signed.
BUY TICKETSArtist Talks & Installations / Readings & DiscussionsWhereDissection
-
14:00
Workshop: Poetry, Food & Taboo with Malika Booker
14:00 - 16:00Malika’s Poetry Kitchen is a writers’ collective founded in Brixton by Malika Booker and Roger Robinson in 2001. It nurtures the writing, performance and careers of poets by emphasising craft, community and development. Over the decades of its existence, poet Malika Booker has found the power of sharing food and creating communities, even temporary ones, to be transformative. One such impact is in supporting writers to break their own taboos, to challenge themselves much more deeply – be that in the subjects they address, the language they use or the modes of expression they experiment with. Come and have your soul warmed and your boundaries healthily expanded in this unique opportunity. Food will be provided! Once your ticket as been purchased we will contact you to establish your dietary needs.
BUY TICKETSWorkshopsWhereWorkshop Space