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Lockdown: Granddaugter - Lachlan Mackinnon
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A Pang - Lachlan Mackinnon
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things said in the changing room - Andrew McMillan
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Guy’s and St Thomas’s - Kayo Chingonyi
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A Chinese Restaurant Called Happiness  - Will Burns
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Diptych - Victoria Adukwei Bulley
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For Tyrone Givans - Raymond Antrobus
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Nii Ayikwei Parkes grew up in Ghana but was born in the UK where he later returned for further study, where with the friendship and tutelage of fellow black poets he became a vibrant new voice in British performance poetry. 

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Derek Walcott

B. 1930 D. 2017

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Derek Walcott (1930-2017) was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1992, two years after the publication of his most ambitious and celebrated work, Omeros, an epic poem which draws on the Homeric tradition and relocates it in the voices…

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