Citizens of the Archive: Uncovering Race and Poetry
2pm-8pm, Monday 3rd July 2017 at the National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre, London
Organised in partnership with the University of Sussex.
Display Catalogue
A Dangerous Knowing: Four Black Women Poets: Barbara Burford, Gabriela Pearse, Grace Nichols, and Jackie Kay (London: Sheba Feminist Publishers, 1985)
A Descriptive and Chronological Bibliography (1950-1982) of the Work of Edward Kamau Brathwaite, ed. by Doris Monica Brathwaite (London: New Beacon Books, 1988)
Agard, John, ‘Poetry Jump-Up’ [poster]
Agard, John, and Skeef, Eugene [poster]
Alvi, Moniza, ‘Arrival 1946’ (London: Poems on the Underground, 1994) [poster]
A Meeting of the Continents: The International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books: Revisited: History, Memories, Organisation and Programmes (1982-1995) (London: New Beacon Books, 2005)
An Evening of International Poetry [record], ed. by John La Rose and Linton Kwesi Johnson (London: Alliance Records, n.d.)
Andrew Salkey, John La Rose and Kamau Brathwaite in Conversation with Anne Walmsley (London: South Bank Centre, 1992) [cassette]
Asian Women Writers' Workshop: Right of Way: Prose and Poetry (London: Women's Press, 1988)
Black British Poetry [press cuttings]
Black Women Talk Poetry, ed. by Da Choong, Olivette Cole-Wilson, Bernardine Evaristo, and Gabriela Pearse (London: Black Womantalk, 1987)
Bloom, Valerie, Touch Mi, Tell Mi (London: Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications, 1983)
Bluefoot Cassettes: Jackie Kay, John Agard, Fred D'Aguiar, James Berry (London: Bluefoot Cassettes; National Sound Archive, 1990) [compact disc]
Brathwaite, Edward Kamau, The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy (London: Oxford University Press, 1973)
– Barabajan Poems (Kingston, Jamaica: Savacou Cooperative, 1994)
– Born to Slow Horses (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2005)
– DS (2): Dreamstories (New York: New Directions, 2007)
– Elegguas (Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2010)
– Islands (London: Oxford University Press, 1969)
– Islands (London: ARGO, 1973) [record]
– Masks (London: Oxford University Press, 1968)
– Masks (London: ARGO, 1972) [record]
– Middle Passages (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 1992)
– [photographs]
– Sun Poem (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982)
– Words Need Love Too (Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2004)
– X/Self (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)
Caribbean Poetry: The Literary and Oral Traditions [video] (S.l.: BBC for the Open University, 1990)
Capildeo, Vahni, Measures of Expatriation (Manchester: Carcanet, 2016)
– [press cuttings]
Carter, Martin, Poems of Succession (London & Port of Spain: New Beacon Books, 1977)
– [poster]
Césaire, Aimé, [press cuttings]
Charting the Journey: Writings by Black and Third World Women, ed. by Shabnam Grewel, Jackie Kay, Liliane Landor, Gail Lewis, Pratibha Parmar (London: Sheba Feminist Publishers, 1988)
Collins, Merle, ‘Free’ (London: Poems on the Underground, 2002) [poster]
Dabydeen, Cyril, Discussing Columbus (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 1997)
Dabydeen, David, Coolie Odyssey (London: Hansib Publishing & Dangaroo Press, 1988)
Ellams, Inua, #Afterhours: Anthology, Diary, Memoir, Poems (Rugby: Nine Arches Press, 2017)
Garrison, Len, Beyond Babylon: Collection of Poems (1972-82) (London: Black Star Publications, 1985)
Greenlee, Sam, Ammunition!: Poetry and Other Raps (London: Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications, 1975)
Hazeley, Iyamide, Ripples and Jagged Edges (London: Zora Press, 1986)
Healing Strategies for Women at War: Seven Black Women Poets (Manchester: Crocus, 1999)
Holbourne, Zita, Striving for Equality, Freedom and Justice: Embracing Roots, Culture and Identity (Hertford: Hansib Publications, 2017)
International Book Fair of Radical, Black, and Third World Books [press cuttings]
Johnson, Linton Kwesi, Dread Beat and Blood (London: Bogle-L’Ouverture Publications, 1975)
– Dread Beat and Blood (Arts Council of Great Britain; Rebel Movies, 1978) [video]
Kay, Jackie, ‘Sassenachs’ [poster]
La Rose, Anthony (John), Foundations: A Book of Poems (London: New Beacon Publications, 1966)
Let It Be Told: Essays by Black Women in Britain, ed. by Lauretta Ngcobo (London: Virago Press, 1988)
Marriott, D. S., The Bloods (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2011)
– Dogma (London: Barque Press, 2005)
– Hoodoo Voodoo (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2008)
– Incognegro (Great Wilbraham, Cambridge: Salt Publishing, 2006)
– Lative (Cambridge: Equipage, 1992)
– Light, Circles (Hebden Bridge: Open Township, 1987)
– [press cuttings]
– Schadenfreude (Hebden Bridge: Open Township, 1989)
Matthews, Marc, A Season of Sometimes (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 1992)
Meiling, Jin, Gifts from my Grandmother (London: Sheba Feminist Publishers, 1985)
McCarthy Woolf, Karen, ‘On the Thames’ (London: Poems on the Underground, 2013) [poster]
– [press cuttings]
Nagra, Daljit, British Museum (London: Faber & Faber, 2017)
Narain, Denise deCaires, Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry: Making Style (London: Routledge, 2002)
New Beacon Review, ed. by John La Rose (London: New Beacon Books, 1985)
News for Babylon: The Chatto Book of Westindian-British Poetry, ed. by James Berry (London: Chatto & Windus, 1984)
Nichols, Grace, ‘For the Life of This Planet’ (London: Poems on the Underground, 2011) [poster]
– ‘Like a Beacon’ (London: Poems on the Underground, 1986) [poster]
Pollard, Velma, Leaving Traces (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2008)
Prescod, Marsha, Land of Rope and Tory (London: Akira Press, 1985)
Sesay, Kadija, Irki (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2013)
Siffre, Labi, Nigger (Abergavenny, Gwent: Xavier Books, 1993)
Smartt, Dorothea, [press cuttings]
Smith, Michael, It A Come: Poems, ed. by Mervyn Morris (London: Race Today Publications, 1986)
Sulter, Maud, As a Black Woman (London: Akira Press, 1985)
– As a Blackwoman: Poems 1982-1985 (Hebden Bridge: Urban Fox Press, 1985)
– Zabat: Poetics of a Family Tree: Poems 1986-1989 (Hebden Bridge: Urban Fox Press, 1989)
Sunflower of Hope: Poems from the Mozambican Revolution, trans. and ed. by Chris Searle (London: Allison & Busby, 1982)
Walcott, Derek, ‘Love after Love’ [poster]
– ‘Map of the New World: Archipelagoes’ (London: Poems on the Underground, 1999) [poster]
Walmsley, Anne, The Caribbean Artists Movement, 1966-1972: A Literary and Cultural History (New Beacon Books, 1992)
Williams, Milton Vishnu, Years of Fighting Exile (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 1986)
Writing in Cuba Since the Revolution: An Anthology of Poems, Short Stories and Essays, ed. by Andrew Salkey (London: Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications, 1977)