{"id":3916,"date":"2024-05-10T10:58:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T09:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3916"},"modified":"2024-05-10T11:00:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T10:00:46","slug":"ncla-a-tribute-to-benjamin-zephaniah-raymond-antrobus-in-conversation-with-shalini-sengupta-at-the-culture-lab-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/?p=3916","title":{"rendered":"<h6>NCLA: A Tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah, Raymond Antrobus in conversation with Shalini Sengupta<\/h6> at The Culture Lab Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fsn-row full-width-row fsn-69f359002f68e 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-69f359002f7d0 light\"><div class=\"fsn-text fsn-69f359002f8d7\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/939521324?h=4b6cb191d1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"470\" height=\"264\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\" title=\"Raymond Antrobus\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>A Tribute to Benjamin Zephaniah with Raymond Antrobus in conversation with Shalini Sengupta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discussing the impact that Benjamin Zephaniah has had upon his work, career and artistry; Raymond Antrobus discusses his influences for his poetry and his shift towards children&#8217;s literature and the release of his newest work: Terrible Horses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Raymond Antrobus<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>MBE FRSL<\/strong> was born in London, Hackney to an English mother and Jamaican father. He is the author of <strong>Shapes &amp; Disfigurements<\/strong> (Burning Eye, 2012) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outspokenldn.com\/shop\/tsb\"><strong>To Sweeten Bitter<\/strong><\/a> (Out-Spoken Press, 2017), <a href=\"https:\/\/tinhouse.com\/book\/the-perseverance\/\"><strong>The Perseverance<\/strong><\/a> (Penned In The Margins \/ Tin House, 2018), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.panmacmillan.com\/authors\/raymond-antrobus\/all-the-names-given\/9781529059496\" target=\"\"><strong>All The Names Given<\/strong><\/a> (Picador \/ Tin House, 2021), Signs, <em>Music<\/em> (Picador \/ Tin House, 2024).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">His individual poems have been published in <strong>The New Yorker<\/strong>, <strong>The Guardian<\/strong>, <strong>Granta<\/strong>, <strong>Poetry Foundation<\/strong>, <strong>Lit Hub<\/strong>, <strong>London Review of Books<\/strong>, <strong>The Poetry Review, The Deaf Poets Society<\/strong> and elsewhere. In 2019 he became the first ever poet to be awarded the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2019\/may\/20\/raymond-antrobus-becomes-first-poet-to-win-folio-prize\" target=\"_blank\">Rathbone Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Shalini Sengupta\u00a0<\/strong>is a Lecturer in Diasporic and\/or Black British Literatures at Newcastle University.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[28,602,576,869],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916"}],"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=3916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3920,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3916\/revisions\/3920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}