On today’s episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way Gregory chats to Malika Booker about sonnets, Afrostyle school and how you develop a sense of voice in poetry.

Malika Booker is a poet based in Leeds whose collection Pepper Seeds, published by Peepal Tree Press was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize and in 2023 Malika’s poem Libation won the Forward Poetry Prize for best single poem. In 2001 Malika founded writing collective Malika’s Poetry Kitchen and now she is a lecturer in creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

You can buy Malika’s book here: www.peepaltreepress.com/books/pepper-seed

(We’d also recommend enquiring with your local bookshops or libraries as well.)

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