{"id":3839,"date":"2023-11-17T21:24:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T20:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2024-02-28T11:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T10:23:29","slug":"james-berry-prize-winners-reading-with-kaycee-hill-and-marjorie-lotfi-hosted-by-neil-astley-and-theresa-munoz-at-the-culture-lab-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3839","title":{"rendered":"<h6>James Berry Prize Winners&#8217; Reading with Kaycee Hill and Marjorie Lotfi hosted by Neil Astley and Theresa Mu\u00f1oz<\/h6> at The Culture Lab Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fsn-row full-width-row fsn-69f20ebf4ce81 light\" style=\"background-repeat:repeat;background-position:left top;background-attachment:scroll;background-size:auto;\"><div class=\"container-fluid\"><div class=\"row\"><div class=\"col-sm-12\"><div class=\"fsn-column-inner fsn-69f20ebf4d0c1 light\"><div class=\"fsn-code fsn-69f20ebf4d253\"><div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/884429284?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;quality_selector=1&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"NCLA 9th NOV edit\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/div><div class=\"fsn-text fsn-69f20ebf4d2f5\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This event features the two winners of the James Berry poetry prize 2023,\u00a0Kaycee Hill and\u00a0Marjorie Lotfi in conversation with\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neil Astley, the founder of Bloodaxe Books, and Theresa Mu\u00f1oz, the Director of Newcastle Poetry Festival.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Kaycee Hill<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0is a poet and digital mixed media artist. Now based in Southampton, she was born in Winchester and grew up in a working-class, mixed-heritage household \u2013 British and Caribbean \u2013 in Andover.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In her debut collection <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hot Sauce<\/span><\/i> she<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0frankly explores coming of age as a woman \u2013 and the intricacies of connection and memory \u2013 against an urban-pastoral landscape.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Marjorie Lotfi\u2019s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> debut collection <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wrong Person to Ask<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a book of two halves, each a meditation on the idea of home, both the places we start and end up in our lives. Spanning a childhood in Iran dislocated by revolution, through years as a young woman in America, to her current home in Scotland, these poems ask what it means to come from somewhere else, what we carry with us when we leave, and how we land in a new place and finally come to rest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The James Berry Poetry Prize is the UK\u2019s first poetry prize offering both expert mentoring and book publication for young or emerging poets of colour. Organised by NCLA with Bloodaxe Books, and supported by special funding from Arts Council England, the prize was launched in April 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This event took place on the 9th of November 2023 in Culture Lab.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[28,240,778,785,786,655,9,779],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3843,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions\/3843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}