How can artistic expression help us to confront the horrors of the past?

Join award-winning poet Nick Makoha and Dr Malachi McIntosh at Curio Books + Culture for a special evening of poetry reading and discussion.

Focused on Makoha’s research on Black diaspora artists, his latest collection, The New Carthaginians, and his wider archive-based poetic practice, the discussion will explore the concept of the poet as a counter-archivist. The third event in the series What is The Black Archive?, the event will build on the provocations of Anthony Joseph and Caleb Femi to consider how poetic form might be particularly suitable for creating alternative readings of the past and present.

Together, with the audience, we’ll consider the archive, and, in particular, the Black Archive as something that lives beyond the storeroom and which contains potent reparative potential.