Dorothea Smartt
Dorothea Smartt CUNY) | |
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| Occupation | Poet |
| Notable work | Ship Shape (2008) |
| Website | dorotheasmartt |
Dorothea Smartt
Biography
The daughter of Caribbean immigrants from Barbados, Dorothea Smartt was born in
CUNY).[3]
Smartt was poet in residence at
Kadija George and Courttia Newland, 2000), A Storm Between Fingers (Flipped Eye, 2007) and New Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby, Myriad Editions, 2019).[2][5][6]
Smart's multi-media play, Fallout toured primary schools in and around London.
In 2019, she was elected a
Selected works
- Fallout, play (2000)
- Connecting Medium, poetry (Peepal Tree Press, 2001)
- Samboo's Grave/Bilal's Grave, poetry (Peepal Tree Press, 2007)
- Ship Shape, poetry (Peepal Tree Press, 2008)
- Reader, I Married Him & Other Queer Goings-On, poetry (Peepal Tree Press, 2014)
References
- ^ "About Dorothea Smartt". BritBornBajan | The Art of Dorothea Smartt. 19 August 2009.
- ^ a b "Dorothea Smartt". Poetry International Rotterdam. Archived from the original on 11 March 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- ^ "Dorothea Smartt", Black British Women Writers.
- ^ a b c "Dorothea Smartt". Writers. British Council – Literature. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
- ^ a b "Myriad authors awarded at the Royal Society of Literature summer party", Myriad Editions.
- ^ a b Dorothea Smartt page at Peepal Tree Press.
- ^ "Staff | Dorothea Smartt". Royal College of Art. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
- S2CID 167117984. Retrieved 25 October 2022.
- ^ "RSL Elects 45 new Fellows and Honorary Fellows" Archived 28 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine, The Royal Society of Literature, 25 June 2019.
- ^ "Dorothea Smartt". The Royal Society of Literature.
External links
- Dorothea Smartt website
- "Dorothea Smartt" at Peepal Tree Press
- "Interview with Dorothea Smartt, Brit born Bajan literary activist, live artist & poet", Black Looks, 22 May 2014
- "A Sense of Denial - Dorothea Smartt". YouTube video, 2011
- A small selection of Dorothea Smartt's poems in audio format, and read by her, is available via The Poetry Archive.
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