USA Africa Dialogue Series - Porter’s Pensées : Jason Arday Again

Jason Arday Again

Posted on September 3, 2026 by bernardporter2013

My thoughts pretty exactly. (See https://bernardjporter.com/2026/08/16/plagiarism/.)

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: PBS Eletter | Belling the Leopard by Clementine Ewokolo Burnley

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From: Alice at Poetry Book Society <alice@poetrybooksociety.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026, 12:50
Subject: PBS Eletter | Belling the Leopard by Clementine Ewokolo Burnley
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PEOPLE COME AND GO THROUGHOUT THE MORNING People come and go throughout the morning They bring us meals in floral-patterned flasks ask if our pikin-dem know this type of food. We sit comfortably barelegged listening to Dolly Parton singing Jolene on the radio, and pretending to eat. We agree that the night passed well. When asked to look closely at their faces sometimes I know who they are. They’re relieved I can still make them out. Wuna be new blood, which is to say that soon, delicately haired zebra mosquitoes will come to collect their new-man tax just as, at manned barriers the gendarmes siphon cash and gifts from passing cars. From Belling the Leopard by Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, published by Bloodaxe Books. BELLING THE LEOPARD BY CLEMENTINE EWOKOLO BURNLEY  PBS AUTUMN RECOMMENDATION Clementine Ewokolo Burnley far-reaching debut asks what remains after once-familiar places and people have gone. The poems criss-cross the Atlantic, beginning in the 1850s. The voices of Caribbean returnees to the west African coast mingle with those of German missionaries, and kidnappers. Her poems address the past only to illuminate what people can become to each other in the present, whether in Africa or Europe. In one sequence a group of university students from far-flung parts discover the freedoms of student halls in Glasgow. In other poems, a woman consults her scars. Each sight, sound or smell has its threat value in Germany, and children of mixed heritage switch between languages in Italy. Weary of searching outward, women drop anchor in themselves. Going back in search of belonging proves futile, only because connection was there all along. Clementine Ewokolo Burnley grew up in Victoria, Cameroon, and has lived between Scotland, Italy and Germany for forty years, and now lives in Edinburgh. She has an M.Sc. in Computational Linguistics from Manchester University, and is a UKCP-regulated Processwork therapist, conflict mediator and group facilitator. She was joint winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize in 2024. Her pamphlet Radical Pairings (ignitionpress, 2023) was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award. She received an Edwin Morgan Second Life Award (2020), the RSL Sky award (2021) for creative nonfiction, and a Hawthornden Foundation residency, in Bologna, Italy. ORDER HERE PBS ONLINE AUTUMN SHOWCASE  7th September | 7-8pm | YouTube | Free for Members & £5 for Non Members Book now for our online Autumn Showcase on 7th September to celebrate the launch of the Autumn Bulletin. We're so excited to share readings from our brilliant PBS Autumn Choice Padraig Regan, Recommendations Colin Bramwell and Eve Esfandiari-Denney, hosted by our wonderful PBS Selector Victoria Kennefick. The event will be live streamed from 7-8pm GMT on Youtube via private link. Tickets cost £5 for non-members. Please ensure you enter your email (and tick "accept marketing" at the checkout to receive your exclusive event link. Members can watch for FREE. Visit the website Members Area for your private viewing link. Book here for readings from the most exciting new Autumn poetry releases BOOK HERE 10TH ANNIVERSARY BBC CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE FESTIVAL 24th to 27th September | BBC Media City | Salford We can't wait to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the UK’s biggest poetry and performance festival BBC Contains Strong Language in Salford from the 24th to the 27th September 2026. Don't miss this incredible celebration of poetry and spoken word including performances from leading poets Jason Allen Paisant, Alice Oswald, John Cooper Clarke, Jackie Kay, Joelle Taylor , Karen McCarthy Woolf, Len Pennie, Liz Berry, live recordings of The Verb with Ian McMillan and more. Inpress and the Poetry Book Society are back running the festival bookshop throughout the BBC Contains Strong Language festival, so drop by for all the latest poetry releases and a chance to get your books signed. Book your festival tickets now BOOK HERE THE LAUREL PRIZE SHORTLIST  The winner of the Laurel Prize will also be announced at BBC Contains Strong Language  on Friday 25 September. The ceremony will feature readings and discussions with all the shortlisted poets on a panel chaired by Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, Helen Mort. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage established The Laurel Prize "as an annual award for the best collection of nature or environmental poetry to highlight the climate crisis and raise awareness of the challenges and potential solutions at this critical point in our planet’s life." This year's shortlist was selected by judges David Morley (Chair), Imtiaz Dharker, and environmental policy expert Bethan Laughlin. * Midden Witch by Fiona Benson (Jonathan Cape) * Ethnology by Cathy Galvin (Bloodaxe Books) * Natural History by Brandon Kilbourne (Graywolf Press) * Tipping Point by Jane Lovell (Night River Wood) * The Storm’s Flora by Laura Wainwright (Seren Books) Order the shortlisted collections here with your 25% off member discount ORDER HERE NEWCASTLE POETRY FESTIVAL PBS SHOWCASE  2nd October | 7.15pm -8.15pm | £7/£3 | St Mary's by the Tyne | Gateshead Join us on Friday 2nd October for a PBS Showcase with Martina Evans and Jackie Kay launching her new Selected Poems, which is publishing with Picador this October and is a PBS Special Commendation. The festival also includes readings from incredible recent PBS Recommendations Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, Kym Deyn, Sarah Howe and NGP Judges Imtiaz Dharker and Daljit Nagra, as well as legendary US poet Carolyn Forché and Canadian poet Karen Solie. We'll be the official booksellers from 2nd to 3rd October throughout the festival. Drop by to say hi and explore a huge range of all the latest poetry books. Book your tickets here BOOK HERE Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. The Poetry Book Society was founded by T.S. Eliot to share the joy of poetry  WWW.POETRYBOOKS.CO.UK MEMBER INFO: Your Member Number is  and expiry date is

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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Dr. Sabelo Mcinziba to join the Panel Discussion on Jason Arday and Race in the Academy, September 6, 2026​

Dr. Sabelo Mcinziba to join the Panel Discussion on Jason Arday and Race in the Academy, September 6, 2026

Sabelo Mcinziba is a researcher primarily preoccupied with the Question of the Human. His intellectual work is inter-, multi-, and transdisciplinary in service of a set of questions at the convergence of thinking about the human. These include: power, knowledge, violence, trauma, land, death, freedom, aesthetics, space, modernity, identity, heritage, memory, etc. His approach is historical and invested in revealing the philosophical entrails often masked in the history of ideas and in everyday life. He threads the past with the present to dream differently about the future towards the rehumanisation of the dehumanised and rethinking the entire question of the human towards greater justice.

Please join us for a panel discussion with our distinguished panelists, Professor Alan Lester, Professor Christine Vogt-William, Professor Shose Kessi, Dr Sabelo Mcinziba, and Professor Vivek “Vik” Bahl, who will be sharing their expertise on "Jason Arday and Race in the Academy."

Sunday, September 6, 2026

11 AM Austin

4 PM Ghana

5 PM Nigeria

6 PM South Africa

Register Here:

https://www.tfinterviews.com/post/ardayrace

Join via Zoom:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82224027511

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