🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #Early

Tony Allen feat. Ben Okri & Skepta:
🎵 Cosmosis

#TonyAllen #BenOkri #Skepta

https://open.spotify.com/track/0uGZU19VEM0QPcmyBnLPF5

"Beware the stories you read or tell: subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.“
in: A Way of Being Free” by Ben Okri

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Gib acht, welche Geschichten du liest oder erzählst: unbemerkt, in der Nacht, unter den Wassern deines Bewusstseins, verändern sie deine Welt. –Sir Ben Okri

(Gobe Übersetzung von mir, weil ich keine offizielle finden konnte.)

#BenOkri #lesen #Literatur #storytelling #Narrativ #Dichter #poet #Zitat #quotation #Übersetzung

Mir schon klar, dass derartige ›Betroffenheitslyrik‹ dazu dient, uns Zeitgenossen zu beruhigen. Dennoch find ich diese Zeilen von #BenOkri zum #Gazakonflikt gelungen.

Vor allem das …
»Who will find a
Way instead of
Taking a side?«
… spiegelt meine Haltung punktgenau.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/24/gaza-poem-ben-okri

#WritersCoffeeClub Jan 12:
You're at a coffee shop table at the end of the universe, what 3 writers are you chatting with?

Richard Powers, Arundhati Roy, Ben Okri

among others

#amWritingFiction #amChatting #amDrinkingCoffee #authors
#RichardPowers #ArundhatiRoy #BenOkri

Like Romans / On stilts

Segovia
Ben Okri

#Poetry #BenOkri #Segovia #Aqueducts

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/161508/segovia

Via »Monster of the Markets. Zombies, Vampires & Global Capitalism« (2011) von #DavidMcNally wurde ich auf #BenOkri aufmerksam. Bei uns erschien nicht so viel von dem, aber immerhin der erste Band seiner »Famished Road«-Trio.

Anfang von »Die hungrige Straße« (1991 / Dt. v. Uli Wittmann, 1994) haut mich schon mal um. That’s the kind of Fantasy I’m talking about bay-bee!

"Is Climate Activism Working?"

#BenOkri
#PhoebePlummer
#RupertRead

Southbank Centre | London

🔥🌍🔥 #ClimateCrisis 🔥🌍🔥
🌱🪧🌱 #ClimateActivism 🌱🪧🌱
🆘🌍🪧 #ClimateAction 🪧🌍🆘

https://www.youtube.com/live/I_1udpJYkD4

"Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the worlds, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of things, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love...
Ben Okri"

#BenOkri #Quote

“His writing takes on the great riddles of existence—freedom and consciousness, truth and illusion, suffering and transcendence—spinning them into shimmering, allegorical texts.” Anderson Tepper on the work of Nigerian British writer Ben Okri. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/books/ben-okri.html #NewYorkTimes #BenOkri

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEASwdrr2LQ

Ben Okri on writing his Booker Prize-winning novel 'The Famished Road'

#TheBookerPrize #BenOkri #TheFamishedRoad

Ben Okri on writing his Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road | The Booker Prize

"In a new film made exclusively for the Booker Prizes, Ben Okri, the first Black winner of the Booker Prize, explains how he had to create fresh techniques to tell a story rooted in his African childhood"

#BenOkri #BlackMastodon #BookerPrize #Literature #Art #Books #BlackTwitter #AfricanWriters #BlackWriters #AfricanAmerican #Poetry #Documentary #Film #TheBookerPrize

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEASwdrr2LQ