Media
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.
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. 
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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.
Interviews
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BBC Radio 3 The Verb, Translating the Visual into Language.
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'Dante ai Caraibi', Interview in Jacobin Italia.
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BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, Episode on the Writing of Aimé Césaire
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BBC Radio 3 The Verb, Tree Thinking: Experiments in Living
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BBC Radio 3, The Verb,‘A Sound from the Throat of God’: reading and discussion
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BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking, 'On Dogs'
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BBC World Service The Cultural Frontline, on ‘the art of trees’
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‘Arts and Humanities Futures’, Podcast episode 3, LAHRI (Leeds)
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ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment), ‘Thinking with Trees: Poetry and Conversation’