BARE LIT 2020
In August 2020, our festival moved from its South East London home to a free online event series.
Watch or listen to all the sessions below for free!
We’ve indicated whether sessions are available as VIDEO, AUDIO or both. Audio sessions can be enjoyed as any podcast.
A Decade of Identity Poetry
VIDEO + AUDIO Contemporary writers reflect on the canon of poetry on identity in an exclusive video filmed for Bare Lit. With Malika Booker (Penguin Modern Poets 3: Your Family, Your Body, 2019), Rishi Dastidar (Saffron Jack, 2020) and Will Harris (Rendang, 2020).
Grow Yourself Better
Everyday tips for nurturing plants
VIDEO + AUDIO Juliet Sargeant (BBC Gardener's World; A New Naturalism, 2005 - pictured) shows some everyday tips for nurturing plants, and talks about the role that gardening can play in well-being.
Midsummer Archeology with Royal Society of Literature
AUDIO The writing life of authors Irenosen Okojie and Nadifa Mohammed who talk to Shahidha Bari in a conversation organised with the Royal Society of Literature. In collaboration with BBC Radio 3.
Built Stories
From the Archive, Bare Lit 2018
AUDIO Engineer and podcaster Roma Agrawal in conversation with Shiromi Pinto about her book Plastic Emotions, a look into the life of Sri Lankan modernist architect Minette de Silva (pictured).
Reading: Meena Kandasamy
VIDEO + AUDIO A reading of her work with award-winning Meena Kandasamy, author of When I Hit You (2017) and Exquisite Cadavers (2019).
The Secret Life of Prisons
AUDIO Recorded readings from men who were formerly imprisoned at HMP Brixton, describing their experiences of prison, followed by a conversation between them.
What’s Your Horoscope Saying?
VIDEO + AUDIO Alice Sparkly Kat and Marissa Malik (gal-dem) give a reading of current astrological events and discuss how they go about interpreting the celestial to write our horoscopes.