‘There are many layers to one’s “own sound”; it hints at a need to nurture a poetic sensibility, a kind of personal music in the noisy world of language’ Missed this essay in September—well worth reading now 👀 poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…

#Radio Loose Ends Today 18:15 BBC Radio 4 Clive Anderson and Andrew O’Neill ☉ are joined by Craig Cash, Alex Kapranos, Miquita Oliver, 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus and Dan Schreiber for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from The Unthanks. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

My upcoming BBC World service documentary, ‘Recaptive Number 11,407” is a Radio Times pick of the day. Tune in on Tuesday Oct 25th at 8pm.

Recaptive Number 11407, a documentary by 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus out on BBC World Service now. It's a story Ray has been thinking about for years, after reading a passage in David Olusoga's Black and British about some books in Sierra Leone called the Registers of Liberated Africans

Friends, an extract of my book appears today in Granta. A big moment for me! This extract is from a long piece called sky doc, which won an Eric Gregory Award this summer

[The Documentary Podcast] Recaptive number 11,407 #theDocumentaryPodcast podcastaddict.com/episode/147311… via Podcast Addict BBC World Service 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus An astonishing series of documents in #SierraLeone named the #Registers of #LiberatedAfricans record details of Africans freed

On my way to Lagos

This poem is a risk I would not have taken had Amit Majmudar not given me this title. Grateful to him, and grateful, too, to the generous crew Contemporary Verse 2, including EIC @cpetersp, for giving it a home.

Talking polylingual creativities as liberatory practice with the wonderful 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus & Anwuli Ojogwu Lagos Poetry Festival

We're hoping to get this one to print over the next half term. It takes a while to secure copyright on 150 poems this good! Includes 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 lemn sissay OBE FRSL Hollie McNish Robert Macfarlane warsan shire + many, many more englishandmedia.co.uk/publications/e…

Looking forward to this session with 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus and Omar Bin Musa for Lagos Poetry Festival. This conversation and reading will be amazing.

Bit late but just got told my radio doc with producer Ant Adeane made Picks of the week in The Observer. Thanks to everyone that has tuned in / watched / listened so far…catch it here bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

.🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus is an "investigator of missing sounds." He joined Tom Power to discuss his debut spoken world album, The First Time I Wore Hearing Aids, and what it's like navigating the world as a deaf person with a different relationship to sound. cbc.ca/1.6636595

It is such an incredible honour for me to be included in the AQA GCSE English Literature syllabus. I remember how important the poets I studied in school were to me.A big thank you to all involved. #godruleseverythingaroundme #syllabus #gcse #poetry #blackbritishwriters #

Emily Brenchi ♿️🏳️‍🌈 and I made a short video with Helen Dewbery for the WM Readers' Network introducing readers to 5 books of poetry by D/deaf, disabled, and chronically ill poets 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus Dr Betty Doyle Polly Atkin Khairani Barokka and Rachael Boast - hope you enjoy! youtu.be/ePjt9C5lfo8

On this week’s BBC World Service Pick of the World with Anna Doble we’ve fantastic audio from Kalki केकला 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus Sadio Mané Chris Stringer Zoe Kleinman Rebecca Kesby💙 Isaac Fanin Gaurav Vaz All Things Small Hannah Bewley Ant Adeane 09.32 GMT bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

great to find out that 'Recaptive number 11407' has had over 70,000 downloads and streams this week. Listeners, thank you.

The poem I was commissioned to write for the BBC Centenary is online and if you follow the link you’ll see a load of other commissioned pieces from some very recognisable names bbc.co.uk/programmes/art…

I’ll be sharing new writing as part of my Writer-In-Residence Whitechapel Gallery at 7pm tomorrow evening (thursday 17th). Come through 💙🌊🫧 whitechapelgallery.org/events/bodies-…