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by Nicholas McGaughey
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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
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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Derek Walcott
B. 1930 D. 2017
“What's poetry, if it's worth its salt, / but a phrase men can pass from hand to mouth?”
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Surge 3 - Jay Bernard
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Amaryllis Ode - Sharon Olds
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Kae Tempest
B. 1985
"Tempest has forged their own voice, unlike anything else in the mainstream poetry world." - The Independent