Review of flowers like blue glass Dr Martin Kratz Martin De Mello’s introduction to fukudapero’s new collection flowers like blue glass suggests that the poems in this book have the capacity to challenge our ‘habits of mind’. A particular challenge is extended to minds habituated to certain kinds of translation: either those in which source language...
Read MoreCC Archives Blog: Dipping a toe into the archive
Commonword was part of my life before I even knew that it existed. In the early 2000s, I started to explore Manchester’s spoken word scene without realising that many of the poets and writers that I had seen perform were part of Commonword at some stage or another. Almost two decades later, and I find myself working on its archive. I’ve been cataloguing...
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In her debut book, Keisha Thompson presents a series of new poems alongside the script for her award-winning play, Language affords us the capacity to describe our world(s), our experiences, our perspectives and thoughts. Keke Thompson’s Lunar is the kind of work that offers proof of poetry’s omnivorous appetite, the joy of its myriad...
Read MoreProject Co-ordinator: Commonword Community Archive Project
Job Title: Project Co-ordinator: Commonword Community Archive Project Contract: PART-TIME, PAYE 24 Month Salary: £16,600 (NJC 31: pro rata of a full-time salary of £27,668) Hours: 21 hours per week Job Overview: This new post will work alongside Commonword’s core team. The project, in identifying, recording and managing the heritage represented in our...
Read MoreCommonword announces renewed NPO status 2018-2022
Commonword announces the wonderful news that its bid to receive funding under the Arts Council of England’s National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) programme has been successful. We, at Commonword, thank Arts Council England for continuing to support our work. Julia Davis, Commonword’s Chair says: “”We are delighted with this news which will underpin...
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