Explore Poetry
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Some Bright Elegance - Kayo Chingonyi
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Diptych - Victoria Adukwei Bulley
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Kamau Brathwaite
B. 1930 D. 2020
His technique dazzles, and through the handling of rhythm and image he makes the world his own, and ours - The Sunday Times
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Anthony Howell
B. 1945
a talent for avoiding the predictable and deconstructing the recognisable - Stride
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John Agard
B. 1949
His poems are direct and arresting, playful, full of startling imagery, and are hilarious, passionate and erotic as often as they are political - often managing to be all these things at once - Maura Dooley
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Rita Dove
B. 1952
I believe even 5-year-olds can get something from a Shakespearean sonnet...as long as you DON'T tell them, 'This is really hard.' - Rita Dove