The Poetry Centre is delighted to collaborate with TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) on this discussion with TORCH visiting professor and prize-winning poet Kwame Dawes, which will range widely across a number of critical issues in contemporary African poetry and publishing. Professor Dawes will be joined by JC Niala, Nana Aforiatta-Ayim, and the Poetry Centre's ignitionpress poet Belinda Zhawi.