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What Do I Know - Celia A Sorhaindo
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Celia A Sorhaindo
B. 1968
“Ultimately though, Poetry is no more than U N I in conVERSEsensation” – Celia A Sorhaindo
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Nine Nights - Malika Booker
Poet
Malika Booker
B. 1970
“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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by Joseph Fasano
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by Tiffany Anne Tondut
The Mighty Dead
On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer
Read by Simon Russell Beale
by John Keats
On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer - John Keats - Read by Simon Russell Beale
The Mighty Dead
Ulysses
Read by Simon Russell Beale
Ulysses - Alfred Tennyson - Read by Simon Russell Beale
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Antonio, Duke of Milan - Holly Hopkins
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It’s Chinatown - Flora de Falbe
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Interview
Jean Sprackland talks about her inspiration and process for writing poetry.