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Episode Synopsis
Roger Robinson is a writer and educator from Trinidad who has taught and performed worldwide. An alumnus of The Complete Works, he is also a co-founder of Spoke Lab poetry collective. His poetry has been featured in a number of prominent anthologies, including The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain and Bloodaxes’ Out of Bounds: British Black and Asian Poets. His authored works include Suckle (flipped eye, 2009), The Butterfly Hotel (Peepal Tree Press, 2013), and A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press, 2019). A Portable Paradise won both the 2019 T. S. Eliot Prize and the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize 2020 for a distinguished work evoking the spirit of a place – in this instance, post-Windrush Britain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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