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State Sponsored Literature

A website in progress on the history of state literary funding in Britain

Author: asharogers

Living breathing archives

Posted on 26th Oct 20213rd Nov 2021 by asharogers

In this piece, Bethan Fairhurst, a volunteer at the George Padmore Institute in London, reflects on poetry as a peculiar kind of archive drawing from the work of Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jay Bernard and materials from the GPI’s archive on the 1981 New Cross Massacre. Bethan is currently making a series of films about the … Continue reading Living breathing archives →

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Posted on 5th Jun 2020 by asharogers

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