The Poet Mustn’t
Be a Lone Wolf
Malika Booker on the Power of Poetry and Poetic Community at UEA Live.
UEA Live Talk November 17th 2021
UEA Live hosted its final event of the season with a woman that so fiercely yet delicately epitomises the power of change, movement, and transformation— writer, poet, playwright, and multidisciplinary artist Malika Booker. After a warm introduction by K.R Moorhead, Co-Director of UEA Live, Booker was interviewed by Molly Naylor— writer, poet, performer and UEA scriptwriting alumni turned lecturer.
Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different celebrates Kitchen’s far-reaching legacy. The collection features sixty-five breath taking new poems
”‘My friend Roger Robinson and I were in a writing development course together, and it was so wonderful,’ ‘We got so much information about poetry, writing, reading, and then it finished— afterwards, I was in my kitchen talking to Roger, and I said: “we should have things like this with food!” to which he replied, “let’s do it.” So, when shall we start? He said next week. Where? He said, “right here in your house!”’
Malika Booker
How Kitchen first spontaneously came into light
”We wanted to create a safe space where writers could be vulnerable, could build community, could develop their writing, and be open to feedback that’s honest and true,’ most importantly, ‘[we] wanted writers to find their own, individual voice away from the boundaries of the establishment. We wanted them to discover what truth it is that they want to tell.’
Malika Booker
English