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Why can’t a K be beautiful and magick? - Victoria Adukwei Bulley
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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 Oje Taiye
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True Crime - Phoebe Stuckes
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Ode to the Hymen - Sharon Olds
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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
B. 1886 D. 1962
A tune that one has once heard and liked [that] seems to haunt the mind and will not be dismissed until entirely mastered.
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Makhosazana Xaba
B. 1957
These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts. Khosi Xaba, from 'These Hands'
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Selina Tusitala Marsh
B. 1971
Not poems of investigation, but poems of indignation ... Marsh finds self-fulfillment in the act of speaking for the Pacific culture and its inhabitants - Poetry Salzburg Review
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Catherine Byron
B. 1947
Catherine Byron's poems write themselves where they ought: on the inside of your skin. Hilary Mantel
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Malika Ndlovu
B. 1971
We are born to bring light / To honour the blessing of each moment / The gift of every life - Malika Ndlovu