Poets & Writers Theater
Every day we share a new clip of interest to creative writers—author readings, book trailers, publishing panels, craft talks, and more. So grab some popcorn, filter the theater tags by keyword or genre, and explore our sizable archive of literary videos.
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“You will love again the stranger who was your self.” Dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson reads Derek Walcott’s poem “Love After Love” from Collected Poems: 1948–1984 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986) for a tribute to the poet and playwright. Walcott, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, passed away on March 17, 2017.
Tags: Poetry | Derek Walcott | Linton Kwesi Johnson | reading | dub poetry | Love After Love | Nobel Prize | Nobel laureate | 1992 | 1986 | Collected Poems: 1948–1984 | Farrar, Straus and Giroux -
In this Waterstones video, Bernadine Evaristo introduces her novel Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton, 2019), which she describes as “fusion fiction” and a “celebration of Black womanhood,” and the books that influenced her as a young writer. Evaristo won the 2019 Booker Prize for Girl, Woman, Other, sharing the prize with Margaret Atwood for The Testaments (Chatto & Windus, 2019).
Tags: Fiction | Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other | Hamish Hamilton | 2019 | Booker Prize | Waterstones | Audre Lorde | Ntozake Shange | Derek Walcott