After reading Siana Bangura’s truthful collection of poetry about her experiences, I was thrilled to be able to attend the launch event that she had been so excited about in the weeks leading up to the release of ‘Elephant’. On Friday 20th May, a special moment took place in the heart of Hackney at the […]
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I low-key hate attending poetry and spoken word events. I attended a few in the vain hope that I could vibe with the neo-soul, politically aware crowd. It was only after one particularly excruciating night of standing in my platform boots inhaling all that hot air and bluster I said no more! I rebuked these […]
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The countdown is over. #ThisIsElephant Buy ‘Elephant’ on Amazon HERE.
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“You can stop choking on the sound now Stop biting down on the word so hard Don’t be afraid to say it. I’ll say it for you. B-L-A-C-K You heard me. As you refuse to call me by my name – You can call me black.” We are not a monolith. That is the the […]
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“I was putting ‘Elephant’ together long before I even realised. The oldest poem in there is called ‘The Stranger,’ which I wrote in 2013 after a difficult encounter with someone from my former life. That encounter caused me a lot of pain – the type of pain I did not know how to verbalise and […]
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“Politics affects everything; the price of your drink, who is going to see you when you go to a doctor, what you are learning about at school. So, I learnt a long time ago that the personal is political. Everything I do, mainly looks at the intersection between race and gender, is informed by me […]
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Siana Bangura 