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by Lisa Mulleneaux
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The Colour of James Brown’s Scream - Kayo Chingonyi
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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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Joelle Taylor
B. 1967
'To write a poem as a working-class woman is an act of courage, of resistance. To perform it is a revolution' – Joelle Tayor
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The Word for Wood - Will Burns
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A Chinese Restaurant Called Happiness - Will Burns
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Drive South Listening to Country Music - Will Burns
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A Comparative History of Fire - Momtaza Mehri
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Swallow Twice - Inua Ellams
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Rachel Long
B. 1988
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. -Toni Morrison ”