Explore Poetry
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Nocturne - Lachlan Mackinnon
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Guy’s and St Thomas’s - Kayo Chingonyi
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How To Cry - Kayo Chingonyi
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Cycnus in Soho - Will Burns
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A Man Made of Water - Will Burns
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The Door of No Return - Yomi Sode
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes
B. 1974
“If my heart is broken, I should be thankful that I was blessed to have loved but I cannot live that wisely. That’s why I cry ”
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Gone - Nii Ayikwei Parkes
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Patience Agbabi
B. 1965
I write because my ink must flow like blood. The written must be spoken. Patience Agbabi
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A E Housman
B. 1859 D. 1936
The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.
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Jacob Polley
B. 1975
The kind of poetry that imbues the everyday, the tarnished and burnished, with the possibilities of the transcendent - The Times