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Ep. 19. Victoria Adukwei Bulley, 'The Ultra-Black Fish'
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Ep. 19. Victoria Adukwei Bulley, 'The Ultra-Black Fish'
In this episode I talk to Victoria Adukwei Bulley's poem 'The Ultra-Black Fish' from her collection Quiet [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/quiet-victoria-adukwei-bulley/6754129?ean=9780571370337&next=t] (2022). You can also read the poem at Granta [https://granta.com/three-poems-victoria-adukwei-bulley/].
Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer and artist whose work has appeared widely in publications including the London Review of Books, LitHub, and The Atlantic. She is the winner of an Eric Gregory Award, and her critically acclaimed debut poetry book, QUIET, won the Folio Prize for Poetry, the John Pollard Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. QUIET is published by Faber & Faber in the UK and in North America by Knopf, Penguin Random House.
Episode references:
* Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/undrowned-black-feminist-lessons-from-marine-mammals-emergent-strategy-series-alexis-pauline-gumbs/4938231?ean=9781849353977&next=t]
* Saidiya Hartman, Waywards Lives, Beautiful Experiments [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/wayward-lives-beautiful-experiments-intimate-histories-of-riotous-black-girls-troublesome-women-and-queer-radicals-saidiya-hartman/4819349?ean=9781788163248&next=t]
* Kevin Quashie, The Sovereignty of Quiet [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-sovereignty-of-quiet-beyond-resistance-in-black-culture-kevin-quashie/2416993?ean=9780813553108&next=t]and Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/black-aliveness-or-a-poetics-of-being-kevin-quashie/19c96f4c91e8d09c?ean=9781478014010&next=t]
* Layli Long Solider, Whereas [https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/whereas-layli-long-soldier/3477782?ean=9781529012804&next=t]
* Rickey Laurentiis, Death of the First Idea [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753987/death-of-the-first-idea-by-rickey-laurentiis/]
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Books Up Close: The Podcast
Books Up Close is a show for book lovers, language nerds, or anyone who wants to know how texts get made. Listen as writer and academic Chris Lloyd performs a 'close reading' of some writing with the author themselves.
