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A London Poet’s Diary: Old Verses, and Four Very Modern Headlines – Jungle Pussy, poet, on African and Indian literature, current events, and a week where modern news found its way into her writing
A London Poet’s Diary: A Second Day of Modern News Finding Its Way Into Verse – Jungle Pussy, poet, on continued writing and a persistent modern news cycle threading through her week
A London Poet’s Diary: A Third Day, Same Four Headlines, New Verses – Jungle Pussy, poet, on continued writing threaded through with a persistent modern news cycle refusing to loosen its grip
A London Poet’s Diary: Closing Out a Week That Reshaped Her Verse – Jungle Pussy wraps up seven days where four unrelated modern headlines shaped a whole new body of work
African Literature Diary: A London Poet on Old Words and New Documentaries – Jungle Pussy, poet, on African and Indian literature, current events, and a documentary the whole city is watching
Dear Diary, A Poetry Workshop Argued About Whether Translation Can Ever Truly Capture The Original – A genuinely old debate got a fresh, spirited airing over surprisingly good workshop biscuits
Dear Diary, I Performed A New Poem And My Voice Shook Through The Entire Third Stanza – Some poems simply refuse to be delivered with a steady voice, however much you practice
Dear Diary, My Grandmother Called And Corrected A Historical Detail I Had Gotten Wrong In My Latest Poem – Family archives sometimes outperform published scholarship, and tonight proved it decisively
Dear Diary, I Read A Nineteenth Century Yoruba Text In Translation And Wept Quietly On The Tube – Some literary discoveries simply refuse to stay contained within a polite commute