Mixtape Tour

Poetry show by @NickMakoha & Roger Robinson (@rrobinson72) exploring what has influenced their art with an enduring frindship at the centre.

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Jay @Brrnrrd - #SURGE

Book now to see the award winning show at @TheAlbanySE8 20-22 June: https://t.co/Et4IsrNyAJ

#NewCross #wordsofcolour #poetry #resistance #archives
(video from an early reading for @GPI_Archive)

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SURGE - by Jay Bernard

The show that won the 2017 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry is at @TheAlbanySE8 for 3 nights only!

Don't miss the chance to see this powerful performance - 20-22 June
BOOK NOW: https://t.co/Et4IsrNyAJ
#Surge

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Happy publication day to one of our favourites @johnypitts with #Afropean! Come see him talking about his new book at @StokeyLitFest opening Gala alongside @rrobinson72 who's got a new collection of his own, Portable Paradise. Tickets just £6! https://t.co/uyo6vr4B5d

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Mixtape Tour in Norway: @rrobinson72 & @NickMakoha have been leading poetry workshops with young people in @Haugesund 🇮🇸📝
#poetlife #wordsofcolour #mixtape #readon #passports

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Winter Horses by Uday Thapa Magar ❄️🐎 Commissioned for #BreakingNewGround19, celebrating illustrators of colour. This image contains a range of influences (explained in pic 2) #illustration #reflectingrealities
Read the Breaking New Ground booklet now at https://t.co/KPui35PzHp

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Discover the 100 writers & illustrators of colour creating stories for children & young people featured in Breakng New Ground! Read it online here: https://t.co/KPui35PzHp
#BreakingNewGround19 #inclusivepublishing
c. Ken Wilson-Max 'Grandma's Hair'

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#BreakingNewGround19 launches on Wednesday!

Find out how @Speak_Volumes, @BookTrust & @PopUpFestival are making positive changes for writers & illustrators of colour creating for children & young people.

Launch at 10am, 13 March: https://t.co/gzIa3oQO1c

#reflectingrealities

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This is a staggering fact.

#BreakingNewGround19 launches on 13 March - join us a London Book Fair and find out what @Booktrust, @PopUpFestival & @Speak_Volumes are doing to make positive changes for writers + illustrators of colour: https://t.co/gzIa3oQO1c

#diversewriters

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#BreakingNewGround19 A new resource & project for children's & YA writers and illustrators of colour. Launching Wednesday 13 March at London Book Fair - join us there: https://t.co/gzIa3oQO1c
#childrensliterature #diversewriters #inclusivepublishing #inclusivebooks #BNGLaunch

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#BreakingNewGround19 - Find out what we're doing to make positive changes for authors of colour in #YoungAdult #books - @Speak_Volumes @Booktrust @PopUpFestival Project launching Weds 13 March @ #LBF19: https://t.co/gzIa3oQO1c | #YA #inclusivepublishing #wordsofcolour

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#BreakingNewGround19: joint project to promote brilliant illustrators + writers of colour, making work for children + young people by @Booktrust, @PopUpFestival + @Speak_Volumes. No need to give further reasons why. Launching 13 March at London Book Fair: https://t.co/gzIa3oQO1c

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Breaking New Ground, our project with @BookTrust & @PopUpFestival to make positive changes for writers + illustrators of colour in children's + YA books, launches Wednesday 13 March.
Join us at London Book Fair or live online: https://t.co/gzIa3oQO1c | #BreakingNewGround19

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Here it is. The cover of my new book. Photograph by the amazing Johny Pitts and designed by the ever talented Nicola Griffiths. I feel that every book I ever wrote led me to this book. I hope you all enjoy it. https://t.co/na5kxl5Yg2

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Exclusive full stream of King Midas Sound's Solitude - The Wire https://t.co/yxI3BBhST2

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In 2017 we launched #BreakingGround. In 2019 we will launch #BreakingNewGround: 100 #writers and #illustrators of colour with @Booktrust & @PopUpFestival. #Children and #youngpeople deserve #diverse #stories. Join us @LondonBookFair on 13 March 2019: https://t.co/MmTA3p3Ipf

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He's an incredible poet, musician, and facilitator, and he loves a fried egg sandwich... Roger Robinson steps into the A+S spotlight: https://t.co/6SqyIa1ZUT @rrobinson72 #RogerRobinson #PerformancePoetry #SpokenWord

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#thinklikeanartist

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"I was documenting the history of black people in Britain as that history was being made."
Tune into @BBCRadio3 at 10pm tonight to hear a special programme Free Thinking with the legend Linton Kwesi Johnson in conversation: https://t.co/yernikTG8e
#LKJ #poetry #FreeThinking