Black Noise with Victoria Adukwei Bulley

A conversation with poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley on maroonage, tussling with the limiting imagination of the English language and embracing Blackness as a sickness in the gut of empire: 'I’m already in the belly of the beast. I'm not outside of this system.

I can be real trouble, actually. We may not see the end of whatever struggle we are working within, but I do think that when it comes to being belligerent, I’m in a prime location to help bring this thing down.' Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer and artist.

An alumna of both the Barbican Young Poets and Octavia Poetry Collectives, she was awarded a TECHNĒ scholarship for doctoral research at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her debut pamphlet, Girl B , was published by the African Poetry Book Fund in 2017.

Her debut collection, Quiet , was published by Faber in 2022. It was shortlisted for the T.S.

Eliot Prize and won the Rathbones Folio Prize for Poetry and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize. Busy Being Black with Joshua Rivers is the award-winning podcast about Black creative, cultural & spiritual vitalities, in conversation with our rebels, radicals & vanguards.

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