lanaire aderemi is an award-winning poet, playwright and PhD researcher committed  to amplifying and archiving untold stories. She is the recipient of the 2019 Shoot Festival Artist Development Award and the 2020 Peter Gutkind Prize. In 2021, her play ‘protests, hymns and caskets’ was shortlisted for the Mustapha Matura Award. Her work on memory has appeared in the BBC, Tate Modern, Warwick Arts Centre and The Republic Journal.

In this episode, we talk about preserving joy, creating from a place of stillness and approaching life with a childlike sense of wonder.