Wasafiri 64: Black Britain - Beyond Definition

Wasafiri Issue 64: Winter 2010

Black Britain: Beyond Definition

Interviews with Kwame Kwei Armah and Jackie Kay

Fiction by Leone Ross

Graphic Art by Jay Bernard

Poems by Warsan Shire, Kayo Chingonyi, Louisa Adjoa Parker, Yemesi Blake, Sheree Mack and Inua Ellams

Editorial 

The Illusion of Inclusion
Bernardine Evaristo

Poetry and Poetics

Snapshots: Six New Voices 
Karen McCarthy Woolf 

Interview

'Stories and survival': An Interview with Jackie Kay
Maggie Gee

Statements of Intent: An Interview with Kwame Kwei-Armah
Bernardine Evaristo

Graphic Art

Land Narrative
Jay Bernard

A Writer's Life

Notes: on becoming a novelist
Jacob Ross

The Books That Made Me
Diana Evans

Stories and Lies
Catherine Johnson

Textual Chemistry: My Journey from Science to Publishing
Nii Ayikwei Parkes

Essay

Extra dimensions, new routines: Contemporary Black Writing of Britain
John McLeod

Creative Futures
Jacob Sam-La Rose

The Complete Works: Developing New Poetries in Contemporary Britain
Nathalie Teitler

Fiction

Love Silk Food
Leone Ross

The Candle Fixer: An extract
Jenneba Sie-Jalloh

Memoir

Life Writing: A Nigerian Composition
Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Reviews

White is for Witching – Helen Oyeyemi
True Murder – Yaba Badoe
The Wonder – Diana Evans 
Imagine This – Sade Adeniran 
Laura Pawson

The Dirty South – Alex Wheatle
Forest Gate – Peter Akinti
Onyekachi Wambu

Suckle – Roger Robinson
Bird Head Son – Anthony Joseph
Kwame Dawes

Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays – Zadie Smith
Aamer Hussein

Bloodshot Monochrome – Patience Agbabi
ship shape – Dorothea Smartt 
Salt-sweat & Tears – Louisa Adjoa Parker 
Lauri Ramey

The Long Song – Andrea Levy
Strange Music – Laura Fish
John T Gilmore

The Front Room: Migrant Aesthetics in the Home – Michael McMillan
Caroline Bressey

Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry – Kwame Dawes, ed
Naomi Woddis

Crocodile – Anthony C. Winkler
Fran Bigman

Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry – Frank M Chipasula, ed
Becky Ayebia Clarke

Riversmeet – Richard Bradbury
David Johnson