About this Event
Roger Robinson's new book Some Sacred Harbour launches a conversation about Creative Citizenship, a philosophy that argues creativity belongs to everyone.
We often talk about creativity as if it belongs to artists. Award-winning poet Roger Robinson believes that may be one of the most limiting ideas of our time.
With the publication of Some Sacred Harbour, his new and selected poems from Bloomsbury, Robinson is inviting readers into a much larger conversation than the release of a poetry collection. Drawing on more than thirty years of writing, teaching and community practice, the book introduces the principles of Creative Citizenship, the belief that creativity is not a talent possessed by a gifted few but a civic practice that helps societies remember, connect and imagine.
At a time when loneliness is rising, public gathering spaces are disappearing and culture is increasingly experienced through algorithms and screens, Robinson proposes a different understanding of creativity. Creativity as a shared practice of attention, hospitality and belonging.
Roger Robinson won the T.S. Eliot Prize (2019), the RSL Ondaatje Prize (2020), the Cholmondeley Award (2024). He is a Royal Society of Literature Fellow and has been shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, the OCM Bocas Poetry Prize, the Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize, and the European Prize for Freedom.His collection A Portable Paradise was named a New Statesman Book of the Year. His book Home Is Not a Place, created in collaboration with Johny Pitts, was a Guardian Poetry Book of the Year and shortlisted for the British Book Awards. He has also been a collaborator with the artist Hurvin Anderson on his monograph published by Rizzoli in 2022.
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Brixton Library, Brixton Oval, London, United Kingdom
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