The Colour LineIt was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life was especially tough for Black women, but she didnt let that stop her. The daughter of a Native American woman and an African Haitian man, Lafanu had the rare opportunity to study, travel, and follow her dreams, thanks to her indomitable spirit, but not without facing intolerance and violence. Now, in 1887,

while The Song of Lunch became a BBC2 film starring Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson

crystalline poems break in the mind like wafers of longing for a world we’ve nearly forgotten is still ours

Lord Byron

Frances-Marie Coke comes to us with a well-formed poetic voice

Jean Antoine-Dunne’s lively and enriching study begins in a recognition of how important film has been in the whole of Derek Walcott’s career

growing up in post-war Liverpool and

Full Stops in Winter Branches is alive with poems that capture moments of life's imperfection and moments of rare beauty

follows her 2016 collection

Now is a Moveable Feast (1991)

Mohammad Afif al-Hussaini and Sabri Youssef

is thrown out and overlooked in the contemporary world of liberal capitalism

as though Mathilde brings with her a force that charges everything around her: the park bench