Ledbury BAME initiative for poetry critics
Ledbury Poetry Festival in collaboration with award-winning poets Sandeep Parmar (pictured) and Sarah Howe recently founded The BAME Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critics scheme to encourage diversity in poetry reviewing culture and support emerging critical voices. As recent statistics show, reviewers and poets of colour are hugely underrepresented in broadsheet and journal publications, with just 4.3%...
8th May 2018
Sandeep Parmar and BAME poetry critics
Ledbury Poetry Festival in collaboration with award-winning poets Sandeep Parmar and Sarah Howe recently founded The BAME Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critics scheme to encourage diversity in poetry reviewing culture and support emerging critical voices. As recent statistics show reviewers and poets of c...
30th April 2018
