The New Carthaginian: An Artist in the Black Archive
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.
Date:
26 June 2025, 18:45
Venue:
Curio is a bookshop and event space downstairs at Common Ground cafe and co-working space. To find us, go to the back of the cafe and head down the stairs. We regret to say there is no access for wheelchairs or those with mobility issues.
Speakers:
Dr Nick Makoha,
Malachi McIntosh
Organising department:
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organiser:
TORCH (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
arunima.cheruvathoor@humanities.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Malachi McIntosh
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://wegottickets.com/event/661821
Cost:
£5.50
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Arunima Cheruvathoor
