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Scholarship named in poet’s honour.
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Category Archives: Highlights of The Week
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Refugee Boy Special Edition Poster
This is a special edition poster for my stage adaptation of Benjamin Zephaniah's hit novel Refugee Boy at West Yorkshire Playhouse. Please share and click on poster. Read more [...]
The highest light of them all.
It's been a week full of highlights but this is the highest light of them all. His name is Jason Smith and he wrote to me out of the blue . I asked him if I could publish his message in this blog Read more [...]
Bomb Scares and Shootings (Highlights of the Week)
The week sparks off in rehearsals for Benjamin Zephaniah’s Refugee Boy which I’ve adapted for stage at West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, and it feels good. Over the next 3 days I watch actors Read more [...]
At any given time
This past month I’ve been to Sweden, Canada Indonesia Kenya and England. They’ve all been wonderful. One highlight for me was speaking to the young people at The London Schools and The Black Child Read more [...]
Baaba Maal and the poets: Word Sound Power.
There have been a lot of highlights this year but last night topped them all. It was Word Sound Power at Southbank Centre. Poets and novelists read with Baaba Maal at the inaugral event for Africa Read more [...]
Problem Child, Difficult Child. Imagination in Recession.
Moses was a foster child and look at the trauma his foster parents experienced. Superman was a foster child and I’m sure the ability to see through walls didn’t do him any favours in childhood. Harry Read more [...]
The Gollywogs Have Gone! Highlights of the Week
Sunday . I’m one of four panelists including Jeremy Hardy on left at the Clore ballroom of Southbank Centre for Women of the World festival’s MENTALK. If you take the K from MENTALK..... The Southbank Read more [...]
Food For Thought: Highlights of The Week.
It’s Thursday I’m attending a dinner at The Clore Ballroom in Southbank Centre. There’s more writers for children publishers and agents than I’ve ever seen in one room, from Jaqueline Wilson Read more [...]