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Jean-Michel Basquiat painting in the ICA Studio, circa 1984. Courtesy of the Tate Archive
Join Nick Makoha, ICA poet-in-residence, for hot drinks and pastries as he shares highlights from his current research project on Jean-Michel Basquiat. Nick will lead a short workshop on the prose poem and the nature of ‘ekphrasis’. He will also share some of the poems he has been developing during his ICA residency, which will constitute part of his upcoming manuscript The New Carthaginians, a three-part work that draws from Basquiat's absurdist practice and constructs new forms of poetic abstraction.
Nick Makoha is the founder of The Obsidian Foundation. Winner of the 2021 Ivan Juritz prize and the Poetry London Prize. In 2017, Nick’s debut collection Kingdom of Gravity was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection and was one of the Guardian’s best books of the year. Nick is a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow and the Complete Works alumnus. He won the 2015 Brunel International African Poetry Prize and the 2016 Toi Derricotte & Cornelius Eady Prize for his pamphlet Resurrection Man. His play The Dark – produced by Fuel Theatre and directed by JMK award-winner Roy Alexander – toured nationally in 2019. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Alfred Fagon Award and won the 2021 Columbia International Play Reading prize. His poems have appeared in the Cambridge Review, the New York Times, Poetry Review, The Rialto, Poetry London, TriQuarterly Review, 5 Dials, Boston Review, Callaloo and Wasaari. He is a Trustee for the Arvon Foundation and the Ministry of Stories, and a member of the Malika’s Poetry Kitchen collective.
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