Nick Makoha Interviews

Malika’s Poetry Kitchen is a community of poets dedicated to developing their craft. Founded in 2001 and based in London, the collective’s influence on the contemporary poetry and spoken word scene has reached far beyond the capital.

This is a unique opportunity to hear the work of two Kitchen founders, Malika Booker and Jacob Sam La Rose, plus Jill Abram, Rishi Dastidar, Seraphima Kennedy and Peter Raynard.

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 The Festival of Nature presents an evening of spoken word performance featuring leading international writers and poets responding to the impact of climate change on the planet. BIOSPHERE
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Biosphere Conversations Nick Makoha

Loungin Humble Starz Mix

@NickMakoha talks about his show @FatherSuperhero coming to @Carriagewrx.

NICK MAKOHA BBC Radio Leeds

Kat Orman interviews Nick Makoha on BBC Radio Oxford 95.2FM. Before his show My Father & Other Superheroes open at the Pegasus Theatre on October the 15th for Black History month

SuperDad interview for BBC Radio Oxford

Football may be the UK’s unofficial national sport, a unifying force for men across class and race, but does it create a damaging form of masculinity?
A panel of football fans looks at issues including the absence of openly gay players, hooliganism, FIFA and the Andy Gray and Richard Keys scandal.
The panel includes Lee Dema, Founder of the St. Matthew’s Project, a charity offering free, structured football sessions and development opportunities to young people aged from six to 24 in Lambeth; poet, playwright and Arsenal supporter Nick Makoha; and poet, performer and writer Paul Lyalls.
They talk about the positive and negative imagery that surrounds this beloved sport and the positive role of the communities it builds.
The discussion is chaired by Tim Samuels, award-winning documentary filmmaker, broadcaster and presenter of BBC 5 Live Men's Hour.

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/being-a-man-sunday-day-pass-93292

Being a Man 2015 | The Beautiful Game

Football may be the UK’s unofficial national sport, a unifying force for men across class and race, but does it create a damaging form of masculinity?
A panel of football fans looks at issues including the absence of openly gay players, hooliganism, FIFA and the Andy Gray and Richard Keys scandal.
The panel includes Lee Dema, Founder of the St. Matthew’s Project, a charity offering free, structured football sessions and development opportunities to young people aged from six to 24 in Lambeth; poet, playwright and Arsenal supporter Nick Makoha; and poet, performer and writer Paul Lyalls.
They talk about the positive and negative imagery that surrounds this beloved sport and the positive role of the communities it builds.
The discussion is chaired by Tim Samuels, award-winning documentary filmmaker, broadcaster and presenter of BBC 5 Live Men's Hour.

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/bein…y-pass-93292

The Beautiful Game.

This episode is in three parts:

Part One - David Turner is in Haggerston, London to talk to Hannah Silva about her solo show Schlock! which runs until 26/11/2016. The pair discuss the writing of Kathy Acker, the novel Fifty Shades of Grey and accessibility in theatres.

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www.rosemarybranchtheatre.co.uk

Part Two (27:14) - David Turner is in Lambeth, south London chatting to poet Nick Makoha about professionalism, Nick's own development as a writer and poetry's place in society.

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www.twitter.com/NickMakoha
www.fathersuperhero.com
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Part Three (56:16)- David Turner talks to comedian, musician and poet, John Hegley. Songs, poems, biscuits and coffee.....

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Hannah Silva; Nick Makoha; John Hegley

David Turner is in Lambeth, south London chatting to poet Nick Makoha about professionalism, Nick's own development as a writer and poetry's place in society.

Nick Makoha Lunar Poets Interview

Malika Booker’s writing spans poetry, theatre, monologue, installation and education, and is rooted in storytelling. In 2001, she co-founded Malika’s Poetry Kitchen, to create a nourishing and encouraging community of writers dedicated to the development of their writing craft. It is now a firmly established writers’ collective based in London. Malika is Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow at Leeds University, and in 2017 was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. As well as reading from her own work, she introduces two poets she greatly admires. Nick Makoha was born in Uganda, but fled Idi Amin’s tyranny as a boy. On completing a degree in biochemistry in the UK, he realised he had a vocation as a poet. Kim Moore’s debut collection, The Art of Falling, won the 2017 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

We are grateful to the T. S. Eliot Estate for sponsoring this event.

Three Poets

This episode looks at migration, civil war, and the power of stories and poetry to take us beyond the headlines.

Three years ago, the body of three-year-old Syrian refugee, Alan Kurdi was found on the beach in Turkey. This provoked Khaled Hosseini, best-selling author and Afghan refugee, to write the illustrated story, Sea Prayer.
Ted Hodgkinson had poet Nick Makola in the studio where they talked about politics, family and his experience of fleeing Uganda as a child.

"I connect with that man running from his country and not knowing he has to leave, with tears in his eyes, while he holds his mother's hand."
NICK MAKOLA

Literature and the refugee crisis featuring Khaled Hosseini and Nick Makoha

Mestopia A-coustic

Digital Prayer for Souls ep - Loungin- lazdy days mix by Humble Stars

Nick Makoha

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