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What might have been? A poet recalls flirtations and electric connections that could have led to a different life.Selina Nwulu is a writer of Nigerian heritage who is based in London. Her poetry and essays have been widely featured in a variety of journals, short films, and anthologies, including the critically-acclaimed anthology New Daughters of Africa. Her first chapbook collection, The Secrets I Let Slip, was published in 2015 by Burning Eye Books and is a Poetry Book Society recommendation. She has toured her poetry extensively, both internationally and throughout the U.K. in a number of cultural institutions. She has also been featured in Vogue, ES Magazine, i-D, and Blavity, among others. Her work has been translated into Spanish, Greek, and Polish, and exhibited in Warsaw, New York, Dublin, and Glasgow. She was the Young Poet Laureate for London in 2015-16, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. She was also a finalist for the 2021 U.K. Arts Award for Environmental Writing. A Little Resurrection is her debut full-length collection. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.We're pleased to offer Selina Nwulu's poem, and invite you to connect with Poetry Unbound throughout this season.
Poetry Unbound with host Pádraig Ó Tuama is back on Monday, May 22. Featured poets in this season include Selina Nwulu, Wo Chan, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Mark Turcotte, and many more. New episodes released every Monday and Friday through July 28.Follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Overcast, or wherever you listen.
Director Martin McDonagh talks about his new film The Banshees of Inisherin. The former Young People's Laureate for London, Selina Nwulu, discusses her latest collection of poems. John McDiarmid reports from The Royal National Mòd, Scotland's festival of Gaelic culture.
With Will Eaves, Ben Schott, Selina Nwulu and Jeremy Noel-Tod
In a society dominated by the politics of fear and shame – how are black, brown, Muslim and working class groups forced into silence? What language must be created between ourselves – outside of oppression and beyond hurt – to hear each other and transform the world over? Join writer and arts educator Farzana Khan, former Young People’s Laureate for London, Selina Nwulu, Dr Azeezat Johnson and singer/song-writer Promi Ferdousi for powerful, inspiring discussions and performances, in response to Farzana’s debut piece “Revolutionary Mothering: Staying Alive in Violent Times”. This event is part of our THIS IS PRIVATE Season.
We start the new year by exploring our complex and glorious relationship to Food with writer and Great British Bake Off finalist, Ruby Tandoh, plus, the former Young Poet Laureate for London, Selina Nwulu; and other important voices. We cover food fads, in relation to class and body image; we analyse the language and labels we hear around food, and we ask whether politicising food is all too much. We profile one of Britain's most exciting young visual artists, Larry Achiampong, who has exhibited at London's Tate Britain / Modern, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts in Texas and is currently showing at the 57th Venice Biennale. Finally, we speak to the feminist print collective, See Red Women's Workshop, founded in 1974. We sit down with two original members of this collective to hear more about their new book and the significance of their work for second-wave feminism in the UK. Stance Podcast covers arts, culture and current affairs.
May 2015. A transcript of this conversation is available here: https://lunarpoetrypodcasts.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/interview-selena-nwulu-lpp-transcript-ep-26.pdf Kyla Manenti talks to Selina Nwulu about writing as a natural process, links in her work with political activism, publication and sharing her work, and how she aims to publish as many books as possible. Selina reads three poems. Image of Selina by Nadyah Aissa. 'Encyclopaedia' - 00:00:16 'Two Sides of A Coin' - 00:03:02 'Be Silent' - 00:07:19 www.twitter.com/Silent_Tongue
Young Poet Laureate for London 2015-16, Selina Nwulu, talks to us about her favourite word, 'querulous'.
Rose Fenton chairs a discussion between writers Sai Murray, Selina Nwulu, Zena Edwards, Stevie Ronnie, Oisin McGann, Sarah Butler, Nick Hunt and Dan Simpson about the challenges they faced when writing about climate change. You can download all the writing mentioned in this podcast for free by visiting https://freewordcentre.com/blog/2015/01/weatherfronts-climate-change-writing-commissions/