On improvisation and the poetic occasion

Featuring Souleymane Diamanka, Daniel Heinsius and our old friend Adrian Schoell

For the last few months I’ve been reading and re-reading the work of Souleymane Diamanka, whose work I mentioned briefly at the end of a reading round-up in the autumn. Diamanka is a French poet who was born in Senegal, before coming to France as a toddler. He started out in slam / hip-hop and his earlier printed collections are also available as record…