Raymond Antrobus
Talk Art

Raymond Antrobus

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 3, 20261 hr 10 min

New Talk Art podcast! Robert meets Raymond Antrobus MBE FRSL, a British Jamaican poet, educator, and writer born in Hackney, London, to an English mother and Jamaican father. Diagnosed as deaf at age six, his work explores themes of sound, language, identity, and memory. His writing reflects a lived experience shaped by both mainstream and deaf schooling, and a profound engagement with questions of communication and belonging. Raymond Antrobus was diagnosed as deaf at the age of six. He discovered he had missing sounds - bird calls, whistles, kettles, alarms. Teachers thought he...

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Good afternoon, good morning, good evening wherever you are in the world. I'm Robert Diamandt and you're listening to Talk Art. Welcome to Talk Art. Now today I am feeling altruistic. Now that's a word that I thought a lot about because I was trying to sum up today's guest and he's a very unusual human being because I resonated the first time I

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ever met him and maybe I even knew your work before I knew you. Is that right? Way around? Probably. I think through Jo-o Taylor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. So I think I'd maybe started reading your book and then

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I met you or something and maybe I stopped you. I can't quite remember, but from the minute I met you, I felt like I'd found a friend basically, but without even knowing you yet. And there was something about your generosity of spirit, but also just your precision in terms of the language you use to express yourself. And I was trying to

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