UK report finds magazines and newspapers now featuring twice as many poets and critics of colour as in 2009
The poetry world has made progress on diversity, a new report finds, but “resistance or indifference to inclusivity remains”.
Analysis of British and Irish publications found an overall improvement in the proportion of poets and critics of colour appearing in their pages. Between 2009 and 2016, the newspapers and poetry magazines published review articles by non-white critics 190 times – 4% of the total for those years. Between 2017 and 2019, non-white critics were published 201 times – 9.6% of the total.
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