Explore Poetry
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Guy’s and St Thomas’s - Kayo Chingonyi
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A Gimbal of Blackness - Nii Ayikwei Parkes
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Ghetto Van Gogh - Inua Ellams
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Swallow Twice - Inua Ellams
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Yomi Sode
B. 1984
“To archive poems that may speak to current or younger generations of writers feels incredible. I’m thankful to join a list of iconic figures who inspire me to craft my work to the best it can be.”
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by Oje Taiye
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To My Father / To My Future Son - Ocean Vuong
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Kathleen Jamie
B. 1962
...if poetry is a method of approaching truths, and each of us with a human soul and 'a tongue in oor heids' can make an approach toward a truth, poetry is inherently democratic. - Kathleen Jamie
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Vernon Scannell
B. 1922 D. 2007
The glittering dance of brilliants must be strung / On that dark thread of sadness which is time - 'Sunt Lacrimae Rerum', Vernon Scannell