Nii Ayikwei Parkes

Other

Because I don’t just write but also record and edit and rant, I’ve created this page to hold all the work that falls under other. I’ll update it as often as I can.

 

Recordings

  • Incredible Blues
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  • Compilations

As Editor

 

Anthologies

  • Fourteen Two (flipped eye, 2004)
  • ** Tell Tales Vol 1 (Tell Tales, 2004)
  • ** MIR (Birkbeck, 2005)
  • New Writing Anthology: Volume 15 (Granta, 2007)
  • *The Best British Poetry 2011 (Salt, 2011)
  • *Being Human (Bloodaxe, 2011)
  • *Red Anthology (Peepal Tree, 2010)
  • *Pendulum: The Poetry of Dreams (2008)
  • *Suitcase Love Poetry Anthology  (Suitcase, 2007)
  • The Truth about Love: A Collection of Writing on Love Through the Ages (Cambridge, 2009)
  • *Tall Lighthouse Review (2004)

*poetry anthologies
** fiction anthologies

Articles

  •  “Textual Chemistry,” article, Wasafiri, 25: 4, November 2010
  • “Ants of Accra,” Granta Magazine Online, 2 Sept 2010 [ Available at: http://www.granta.com/Online-Only/Ants-of-Accra ]
  • “No individual ‘fathered’ modern African literature,” Guardian Books Blog, 2 December 2009
  • “63 Years Later: Cairo Modern by Naguib Mahfouz,” book review, Gently Read Literature, September 2008
  • “Ghana Unbound,” article, Index on Censorship, 36 (4), 2007
  • “Virgin of the Flames: Chris Abani,” book review, The Liberal, June 2007
  • “Sick with the Word,” article, Poetry News, 3 (1), 2003
  • “Ursula Rucker Speaks,” interview, ammocity.com, September 2003
  • “Why Writers Must Read,” article, Sable Magazine, Summer 2003

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