Reflections on Aspiration and Literary Dreams

Sam Selvon in Bayswater. The author and editor Susheila Nasta, Selvon’s literary executor, coasts a lime around the Water with Henry. They discuss The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon, visiting Bayswater, Hyde Park and Piccadilly Circus, and discussing the experience of Caribbean migrants in 1950s London. They meet Howard Jeffery, Chairman of the Pepperpot Centre, a community centre for older Caribbean residents in west London.

Penguin Modern Classics edition of The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57514/the-lonely-londoners/9780141188416.html

Ebook: https://books.apple.com/gb/book/the-lonely-londoners/id913000990?itsct=books_toolbox&itscg=30200&ct=books_the_lonely_londoners&ls=1

Susheila Nasta

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/nastas.html

https://twitter.com/susheila_nasta

Wasafiri

https://www.wasafiri.org/

The Pepperpot Centre

https://www.pepperpotcentre.org.uk/

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