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Angel - Joelle Taylor
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Joelle Taylor
B. 1967
'To write a poem as a working-class woman is an act of courage, of resistance. To perform it is a revolution' – Joelle Tayor
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Thanksgiving - Rachel Long
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Hotel Art, Barcelona - Rachel Long
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Blowing Smoke - Nii Ayikwei Parkes
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Rachel Long
B. 1988
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. -Toni Morrison ”
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Victoria Adukwei Bulley
B. 1991
“I myself am bored / of fig leaves, of shames / I did not choose” – from ‘About Ana’
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by Carmina Masoliver