‘black and plural under a coral sky
we circle back to the topic of us—wanting everything
after the reading, or the debrief, or the in conversation’
We are thrilled to be hosting an online discussion with Sarah Lasoye and Victoria Adukwei Bulley on Sarah’s radiant new poetry collection, Fovea / Ages Ago.
The fovea centralis is a small depression in the retina that produces our sharpest vision. In this keenly perceptive chapbook, Sarah Lasoye ruminates on moments from the playground to the present day. She begins to discern the watery contours of a primary self, opening up a tender interior life and a need to anchor oneself in others. With no clean boundary between past and present, emergent preoccupations—with selfhood, goodness and want—persist and reappear.
Sarah Lasoye is a poet and writer from London. She is an alumna of the Barbican Young Poets and a current member of Octavia—Poetry Collective for Women of Colour. Fovea / Ages Ago is her first publication.
Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer and artist. Her work has appeared in publications including The Poetry Review, the London Review of Books and Chicago Review, in addition to featuring on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour. Victoria is the director of MOTHER TONGUES, an intergenerational poetry, film and translation project centering the indigenous language heritages of black poets.
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