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The Negro Speaks of Rivers - Langston Hughes
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The last night of my 20s - Kayo Chingonyi
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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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Some Bright Elegance - Kayo Chingonyi
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Kayo Chingonyi
B. 1987
Kayo Chingonyi was born in Zambia and moved to the UK at the age of six. A poet, producer, DJ, and critic, his talent was nurtured on The Complete Works mentoring scheme initiated by Bernardine Evaristo to foster equality and…
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‘The Missing’
For BBC 100: T.S. Eliot Prize Winning Reading
‘The Missing’ - Roger Robinson
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Dear Hearing World - Raymond Antrobus
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The Surrealists’ Summer Convention Came to Our City - Jo Shapcott
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Revelation - Andrew McMillan
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Andrew McMillan
B. 1988
Andrew McMillan’s debut collection physical was the only collection to win The Guardian First Book Award. It also won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, a Somerset Maugham Award (2016), an Eric Gregory Award (2016) and a Northern Writers’ award (2014)…
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Low Edges - Helen Mort
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Dis Poetry - Benjamin Zephaniah
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Ceremony - Louise Glück
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Louise Glück
B. 1943 D. 2023
Louise Glück is an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, with the judges praising “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”. The poet Craig Morgan Teicher has described her as a…