Prof Sandeep Parmar - Race and Reviewing in the UK - The Ledbury Poetry Critics

Principal Investigator: Professor Sandeep Parmar
Project Partner: Ledbury Poetry Festival
Research Team: Dr Alycia Pirmohamed, Dr Dave Coates
Project Website

Established in 2017 with an initial intake of eight critics, and expanding to twelve the following year, the Ledbury Poetry Critics programme has been at the vanguard of the rapid positive changes in UK poetry criticism. This year-long project builds on Professor Parmar's research on race and UK poetry, as well as on LPC's impact on diversity in reviewing, by extending both its qualitative and quantitative measures and aims to include and reach a much wider group of poetry critics, commissioning editors, arts and policy organisations and early career academics (Dr Alycia Pirmohamed and Dr Dave Coates). Dr Pirmohamed and Dr Coates received their PhDs within the past year and this Fellowship provides a strong and high-profile route for developing their careers as academics.

Project Film

Watch the film about this project below, made by biggerhouse films. There are two versions: an audio-described version and a BSL (British Sign Language) version.

Please see full credit in the expandable section below.