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What Do I Know - Celia A Sorhaindo
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In The Air - Celia A Sorhaindo
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Creation - Celia A Sorhaindo
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Celia A Sorhaindo
B. 1968
“Ultimately though, Poetry is no more than U N I in conVERSEsensation” – Celia A Sorhaindo
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Nine Nights - Malika Booker
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Malika Booker
B. 1970
“She is a black statue in a whitewashed wooden chair, a dilapidated board house, sitting still till dusk spreads her silk petticoat across the sagging sky and bats swarm into the evening’s canvas.”
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The Door of No Return - Yomi Sode
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Guerilla Garden Writing Poem - Inua Ellams
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Blowing Smoke - Nii Ayikwei Parkes
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Until the fabric speaks & the textile is a text - Victoria Adukwei Bulley
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Keith Jarrett
B. 1984
“..and only they, children, excellent students of their own self worth, do know the value of their lives - from 'Outside St Dominic's Priory. Snapshot, July 2015'”