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When They Speak of Muslims - Muneera Pilgrim
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6 poems available

“Ultimately though, Poetry is no more than U N I in conVERSEsensation” – Celia A Sorhaindo

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2 poems available

“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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Diptych - Victoria Adukwei Bulley
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Hostile Environment - Keith Jarrett
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Hone Tuwhare

B. 1922 D. 2008

8 poems available

Gissa smile Sun, giss yr best / good mawnin' one, fresh 'n cool like - 'Sun O (2)', Hone Tuwhare

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Fay Zwicky

B. 1933 D. 2017

4 poems available

Be precise, said wise Wei T'ai, / about the thing / but reticent / about the feeling. - from 'Poems and Things'

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Nothing can be useless to a poet: / that came last night in a dream. / Is it mine or am I quoting? / / Every wise man has his problems, / every idiot his theme (Vivian Smith)

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Beach Ride - Katrina Porteous
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Falconer - Ruth Bidgood
The Mighty Dead

A Musical Instrument

Read by Lavinia Greenlaw
A Musical Instrument - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Read by Lavinia Greenlaw
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