Angela Young

LATEST ARTICLES ( 146 )

• Reading as a Writer. Writing as a Reader. And the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021

  

  Last week a friend of mine and I talked about the six books shortlisted for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction. We’ve done it before and it’s always... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2021 BOOKS

• Black Minds Matter (BMM) : Donations #BMMUK21K

  

  I’ve been in therapy, but the reasons for my therapy have never included the trauma of racism, of living inside a black or brown skin in a white-supremacist... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2021 BOOKS

• Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021

  

  This week is the week of the Women’s Prize Virtual Shortlist Festival. For the (almost invisible) amount of £12 you’ll have access to three evenings of... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2021 BOOKS

• Opening up Set to Blossom at Home. But What About India (her Vaccine Generosity...

  

  A beautiful blossom for our oh-so-close-to-lockdown-easing here in the UK. The Wayfaring Tree (Virburnum lantana): a sign you’re homeward bound. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2021 BOOKS

• Stephen Lawrence Day, 22 April 2021

  

  We will no longer ignore, the racism we all deplore. We will never forget Stephen Lawrence. Directed by Simon Frederick. Written by Simon Frederick, Marcus Jone... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2021 BOOKS

• How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: Bill Gates (& Gordon Brown)

  

  In this Guardian review of Bill Gates’s How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Gordon Brown writes: Success [in combating climate change] will come by demonstrating... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2021 BOOKS

• A Valentine to the Earth: Terra Carta

  

  On 11 January the Prince of Wales announced Terra Carta, Earth Charter, a Magna Carta for the twenty-first century: the basis of a recovery plan for nature,... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2021 BOOKS

• Feeling Low? Try Karunavirus. Seriously.

  

  I don’t know about you, but I’ve been feeling pretty low about the state of our corona-contaminated world (not to mention other depressing events) so I went... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2021 BOOKS

• When This Is Over … and Some Christmas Lights for the Dark Winter Nights

  

  When this is over, may we never again take for granted a handshake with a stranger, full shelves at the store, conversations with neighbours, a crowded... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2020 BOOKS

• Bookshop.org: an Online Bookshop That Supports Indie Bookshops. And, ‘It’s Easie...

  

  Bookshop.org, as the Guardian articles below suggest, is exactly what the publishing world has been waiting for. Bookshop.org supports independent bookshops... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2020 BOOKS

• October is Black History Month in the UK. But Shouldn’t Black History Be Taught...

  

  Black History Month began in America as an annual History Week, in 1925. That year, Black historian Carter G. Woodson, the Father of Black History, announced... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2020 BOOKS

• The Doll Test and the Heartbreakingly Detrimental Effects of Segregation

  

  In the 1940s, in America, Doctors Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and conducted a series of tests known colloquially as The Doll Tests. Read more

  Posted on 14 September 2020 BOOKS

• Deborah Alma’s Poetry Pharmacy: Poetry Prescriptions

  

  Last week I had a telephone consultation with a pharmacist. Not an unusual thing to do in these corona-times, but this pharmacist doesn’t dispense drugs. Debora... Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2020 BOOKS

• What Does It Mean to Be White? It Means I’m Racist

  

  In a recent interview, Robin DiAngelo, a white person, said that to understand my racism, as a white person, I need to ask myself: What does it mean to be white... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2020 BOOKS

• Clean Air: Act. And a Poem and a Chat

  

  If you’re not as ancient as me you won’t remember the pea-soupers in London: Great Smog of London, December, 1952 and I’d only been breathing for just under... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2020 BOOKS

• George Floyd: I Can’t Breathe: BlackOut Tuesday 2 June 2020

  

  LA Reid, record producer and founder of HitCo, posted this on twitter two days ago: And George Floyd’s brother, Philonese, says this on YouTube. Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2020 BOOKS

• Shonaleigh Cumbers: Grief is Love with Nowhere to Go; and One Green Thing:...

  

  Shonaleigh Cumbers is a Drut’syla. To quote from here: She’s a living tradition holder. It’s a tradition you probably won’t have heard of. Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2020 BOOKS

• Stories for Children in Lockdown

  

  At the beginning of April Yahoo set up a short story competition for stories to entertain children during the lockdown. Yesterday, 27 April, they announced the... Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2020 BOOKS

• Poems for These Coronavirus Times

  

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  Posted on 14 April 2020 BOOKS

• Wise and Kind Words for the Coronavirus Pandemic by Adrie Kusserow

  This poem for these strange times is written by Adrie Kusserow after Mary Oliver’s Wild Geese : it speaks for itself. Mary Oliver for Corona Times, thoughts... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2020 BOOKS