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Celebrating National Poetry Day, this year’s theme is ‘counting.’
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BSL laureates Translating poetry Wendy Cope Christina Rosetti Harry Guest Clive James The Poetry Archive and the British Deaf Association (BDA) are collaborating to celebrate and share the work of the Deaf Laureate, alongside poetry created and signed by deaf…
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The Green We Left Behind Against National’s Growth sometimes, our keyboards know us better than our heads do. the time i knew living comes first before loving was when my autocorrect changed my “i love this world” to “i live…
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Chris McCabe
B. 1977
Chris McCabe’s work crosses artforms and genres including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama and visual art. He was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award in 2013 and his five collections of poetry are The Hutton Inquiry (Salt, 2005), Zeppelins (Salt, 2008),…
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Seni Seneviratne
B. 1951
For Seni Seneviratne “the personal is political and they’re always intertwined” – a sentiment Seni embodies not only in her poetry but also across her life, advocating against war and for human rights, amongst various other campaigns. She is a…
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Keith Jarrett
B. 1984
Keith Jarret is a former UK Poetry Slam Champion and FLUPP International Poetry Slam Winner from London. He rose to prominence on the city’s performance poetry scene and was one of the first writers to study on the groundbreaking Spoken Word Educators programme at Goldsmiths University.
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Jan Kemp
B. 1949
Jan Kemp was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, in 1949. She was the sole woman anthologized in The Young New Zealand Poets (1973), and in 1979 co-starred with Alistair Campbell, Hone Tuwhare, and Sam Hunt on a national poetry-reading tour….