The One Fifteen at MIMA. Malika Booker: On writing into absence

The One Fifteen is an informal series of lunchtime talks, in which academics talk about current research and take questions from the audience. All are welcome and no prior knowledge of the subject is needed.

This is a guest One Fifteen, with Malika Booker. There is a maximum of 32 places for this talk. Please contact a.reid@tees.ac.uk if you are booking for a group.

Malika Booker will read from her work and will discuss her PhD research, which explores and challenges storytelling in relation to the Middle Passage, the New Worlds of the Americas, landscapes and loss.

Malika Booker, a Caribbean British poet is the first woman to win the Forward Prize for Best Single poem twice: The Little Miracles (2020) and Libation (2023). She is a lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University and co-founder of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (a writers collective). Her collection Pepper Seed was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre 2014 prize. She is published with Poets Sharon Olds and Warsan Shire in The Penguin Modern Poet Series 3 (2017).
She is a Cave Canem Fellow, A Complete Works fellow, inaugural Poet in Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company and was awarded the Cholmondeley Award (2019) for outstanding contribution to poetry. She was elected a Royal Society of Literature Fellow in 2022.
Malika is close to completing her PhD at Newcastle University.