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SHOCKING: Jay bernard - What They Never Told You

Literature expresses complex and nuanced ideas – the powerful feelings that define us as human beings and the detailed observations that illuminate all aspects of our lives. It does so with words put together with consummate skill.

The Conversation

Poet and artist Jay Bernard: ‘I think our problem today is technical illiteracy’

The award-winning poet and artist on exploring attitudes around Brexit, using AI in their work, and swapping London for Paris

The Guardian - UK

I had 25 addresses in 20 years – but now I’ve created the beginnings of a new life

Gentrification and the cruelties of the rental market kept forcing me to move. This Christmas, I know I’ll find happiness wherever I am, says Jay Bernard, a writer and artist

The Guardian - UK

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Goldsmiths’ redundancy plan shows a lack of commitment to Black British literature

Letters: A group of academics express their concerns that Prof Deirdre Osborne, the co-founder of the MA Black British literature course at Goldsmiths, is facing the threat of redundancy

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: August in England; Blue Now; The Vortex – review

Lenny Henry draws his audience deep into the life – and its shattering – of a Windrush evictee; Derek Jarman’s final film is reverentially revisited; and Lia Williams and son ignite Noël Coward at his darkest

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s Shakespeare – as important as any modern piece of work’: Derek Jarman’s Blue comes to the stage

Russell Tovey, Simon Fisher Turner, Travis Alabanza and Neil Bartlett are teaming up to reimagine the director’s final film – a narrated meditation over a static blue screen – as a ‘thank you’ to the LGBTQ+ hero

The Guardian - UK

Author picks up young writer prize for novel about legacy of male violence

Previous winners of the award, which comes with a £10,000 prize, include Normal People author Sally Rooney and Surge poet Jay Bernard.

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‘Landmark’ anthology 100 Queer Poems published for Pride month

Collection edited by Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan ‘questions and redefines’ the meaning of its title

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