Arifa Akbar

Mama Can’t Raise No Man was recently reported to be the only fiction debut by a black male novelist to have been published in Britain this year.

Quintessential English classics have, before now, been adapted and re-shaped to tell diasporic and subcontinental stories, some more skilfully than others.

In this convesation, Arifa Akbar speaks with Mervyn Morris, the outgoing Poet Laureate of Jamaica. They talk about his works, in particular the use of his 'Englishes'.