by suzyrowland | Oct 30, 2017
After six weeks of planning and a life time of cosmic ordering (remember that?) the date for Songs Of My Soul book launch arrived. I was delighted with the venue, the gorgeous OSO Arts Centre in Barnes. I was nervous, of course, that no-one would show up, but I also...
by suzyrowland | Oct 30, 2017
A writerly mind, and putting it down on paper..When the words in your head simply become to loud to ignore, you need to write them down. That is the theory behind journalling. That is also my theory behind being a writer – the deep desire to get the words out of...
by suzyrowland | Oct 27, 2017
I first read Zong 1781 at my Songs of My Soul poetry book launch on October 25. I’m beginning to love history! Not just black history – all history. The entanglement of people as they migrate across the planet – their wars, their stories, their...
by suzyrowland | Oct 19, 2017
Long before Songs of My Soul was conceived, I remember the living room floor at my mother’s house strewn with handwritten manuscripts, paperclips, highlighter pens, squiggles on note paper and lots of colour photos. It looked like a crazy unsolvable jigsaw ...
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by suzyrowland | Oct 15, 2017
Finally got to Tate Modern’s Soul of a Nation – Art in the Age of Black Power exhibition – and it didn’t disappoint. The opening room threw us straight into paintings full of the colour, imperialism and injustice of Uncle Sam’s America,...
