I regularly appear on radio and other media platforms, participating in educational activities as an expert in poetry, Black history, and as a writer whose work explores embodied experience in the context of Afro-diasporic politics. I contribute insights and perspectives to the public discourse around Black history, local (UK) environmental issues, and global ecological challenges.
BBC Radio 3 The Verb, Translating the Visual into Language.
‘Dante ai Caraibi’, Interview in Jacobin Italia.
BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, Episode on the Writing of Aimé Césaire
BBC Radio 3 The Verb, Tree Thinking: Experiments in Living
BBC Radio 3, The Verb,‘A Sound from the Throat of God’: reading and discussion
BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, ‘On Dogs’
BBC World Service The Cultural Frontline, on ‘the art of trees’
‘Arts and Humanities Futures’, Podcast episode 3, LAHRI (Leeds)
ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment), ‘Thinking with Trees: Poetry and Conversation’
In 2023, Manchester Literature Festival and Manchester Art Gallery co-commissioned me to create a trio of exquisite, sensual and playful poems inspired by paintings and garments in the gallery’s collection and recent Dandy Style exhibition.
I performed ‘Boasty’, ‘Dreaming of silk wescuts’ and ‘Sir Gregory Page-Turner’ for the first time at an intimate event at Manchester Art Gallery on 14 October 2023. I also discussed fashion and style, identity and fluidity, poetry and language, the Black male body and its presence in a conversation with host Malika Booker. This film captures me performing ‘Boasty’ in the gallery in Autumn 2023 alongside the ‘wool waistcoat with a red, white & black check’ that inspired the poem.
— Guest on A Pair of Bookends Podcast, November 2023.
— Interview on The Cultural Frontline, BBC World Service, July 2021.
— ‘Tree Thinking: Experiments in Living’, Interview on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb, 2021, June 2021.
— ‘On Being a Black Body in “Nature”: A Walking Lyric’, Essay commissioned by Ilkley Literature Festival, February 2021.
— ‘The Writing of Aimé Césaire’, Free Thinking, BBC Radio 4, October 2020.
— ‘Thinking with Trees: Poetry and Conversation’, EcoCast: Environmental Conversations on Creative Art, Scholarship and Teaching. Podcast of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, December 2020.
— ‘Dante in Caribbean Poetry’, Podcast of Leeds Dante Institute, November 2020.
–‘Stuart Hall: A Celebration’ Audio recording of a talk given in honour of Stuart Hall at Merton College, Oxford, on 29 November 2014.
–‘Aimé Césaire and Derek Walcott’ Audio blog post. University of Oxford Podcasts. ‘Interviews on Great Writers’ Series. University of Oxford, August 2012.
