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Another Crossing
Another Crossing tells the stories of an individual life, of a family, of the communities of Chapeltown and Harehills, and of crucial moments in the making of Leeds as a place where cultures meet. In poetry that sings from the page, the collection re-creates places that have been swept away by time, like the house on 56 Cowper Street where Kadijah Ibrahiim's Jamaican grandmother lived, where there was black pride and Victorian respectability, where there were aunts who gave the young girl a cultural education, where her grandfather entertained his friends in the sanctum of the West Indian front room. Or there was her mother's house on Gathorne Mount, a place that moved to the looser beat of ...
Khadijah
Siapakah perempuan tangguh penuh inspirasi dan teladan bagi umat? Siapakah perempuan yang jadi panutan dalam hal ketaatan kepada Allah dan suami? Siapa pula perempuan yang tak pernah putus asa terhadap cobaan apa pun yang menerpanya? Atau, mengapa dunia menggelarinya sebagai Ummul Mukminin? Khadijah. Khadijah. Khadijah. Dialah perempuan itu. Perempuan yang selama hidupnya menjadi perempuan panutan bagi kaum hawa sehingga dia pun disemati sebagai "perempuan suci". Rasulullah Saw. pun mengakui belahan jiwanya tersebut adalah motivator ulung tiada duanya yang dihadiahkan Tuhan. Membaca buku karya Ibrahim Muhammad Hasan Al-Jamal ini mengingatkan kita akan romantisme kisah cinta sepasang manusia mulia yang sarat dengan perjuangan, kesetiaan, kasih sayang, optimisme hidup, kesabaran, dan keintiman dengan Sang Pencipta. Maka, tidaklah salah Anda memiliki karya ini sebagai hidangan spiritual bagi keluarga dan generasi muda yang haus narasi keteladan. [Mizan, Mizania, Wanita, Novel, Indonesia]
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Self-Portrait as Othello
Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023 Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023 The Poetry Book Society Spring Choice 2023 Jason Allen-Paisant's debut collection Thinking With Trees won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for poetry and was an Irish Times and White Review Book of the Year 2021. In Poetry London Maryam Hessavi wrote, 'Jason Allen-Paisant is uncompromising when digging down through the undergrowth of our imperialist past – and yet he succeeds in replanting new narratives in the same soil where these toxic ideologies used to, and still, reside.' The interlocking poems of his second collection, Self-Portrait as Othello, imagine Othello in the urban landscapes of mode...
My White Best Friend
What's the one thing that you need to say but have never dared? And who needs to hear it? Based on the original concept by playwright Rachel De-Lahay, this follow-up volume to My White Best Friend (And Other Letters Left Unsaid) collects a series of personal letters, monologues and writings by 20 Black and ethnically diverse writers from across the North of England. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes political and full of fire, these letters explore the personal and political of the things we don't dare say – even to those closest to us. Originally commissioned by Everyman & Playhouse theatres, Eclipse and the Royal Exchange in 2021, in response to The Bunker Theatre's critical...
My White Best Friend
"Based on the original concept by playwright Rachel De-Lahay and commissioned by Everyman & Playhouse theatres, Eclipse and the Royal Exchange, this follow-up volume to My White Best Friend (And Other Letters Left Unsaid) collects a series of 20 personal letters, monologues and writings by BIPOC writers from across the North of England. Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes political and full of fire, these letters explore the personal and political of the things we don't dare say - even to those closest to us. Contributors include: Yusra Warsama, Malika Booker and Jamal Gerald"--
Ode to Leeds
There's always a pause, between the inhale and the first word. The room is silent. Butterflies collide. The words begin to rise up inside of you; Metaphors and similes contort like question marks. Your mouth unhinges, You speak Five young poets from Leeds are selected to compete at the world's most prestigious international poetry slam competition in New York City. Fuelled by love, pride and passionate protest, their words light fires to show the world who they are and what they can be. But the determination to be crowned International Slam Champions threatens to overwhelm everything. As the competition draws closer, the poets are forced to discover not just their voices, but what they must find the courage to say. Ode to Leeds is a funny and moving coming-of-age story; a celebration of Leeds and language; and an ode to the art that changed Nyoni's own life. It blends spoken word poetry, heart and soul to provide a poignant and uplifting portrait of the city of Leeds. The play received its world premiere at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, on 10 June 2017.
Hearing God in Poetry
From Yehuda Amichai and W. H. Auden to Phyllis Wheatley and Walt Whitman, Hearing God in Poetry invites you to take a closer look at fifty great poems by some of the finest poets in the English language. Some are well known, some deserve to be better known, but all say something distinctive that will lift your spirit. This beautiful Lent book for 2022 offers six poems for every week from Ash Wednesday, leading up to Holy Week, with ten poems specially chosen for Easter. A short reflection from Richard Harries accompanies each poet and the poem, drawing out their spiritual insights and how they communicate God's presence. Hearing God in Poetry is an ideal Lent book for 2022 for poetry lovers ...
Weighted Words
From the colonial idea of 'British' tea; the demasculinising experience of infertility in a Jamaican family; a Black woman being both tourist and tourist attraction on her travels in South Asia, and what it meant to be 'everybody's midwife' in an institutionally racist NHS, through to the experience of an Indian migrant child in the 'country of 'the oppressor' -- these are just a few of the themes explored in Weighted Words a new anthology by Peepal Tree Press' Readers and Writers Group. The group comprises writers living in Leeds and West Yorkshire. Through poetry, short stories, confessionals and memoirs, contributors interrogate race, gender, relationship with self and with family, as wel...
Liberated Threads
From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, black women have used their clothing, hair, and style not simply as a fashion statement but as a powerful tool of resistance. Whether using stiletto heels as weapons to protect against police attacks or incorporating African-themed designs into everyday wear, these fashion-forward women celebrated their identities and pushed for equality. In this thought-provoking book, Tanisha C. Ford explores how and why black women in places as far-flung as New York City, Atlanta, London, and Johannesburg incorporated style and beauty culture into their activism. Focusing on the emergence of the ...
