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I write because my ink must flow like blood. The written must be spoken. Patience Agbabi

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7 poems available

Not only rich music, an easy lyricism, but also grit, and earthy honesty, a willingness to be vulnerable and clean. - Gwendolyn Brooks

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Anne Sexton

B. 1928 D. 1974

5 poems available

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. - Anne Sexton

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Patricia Beer

B. 1924 D. 1999

2 poems available

Every writer nearly always has a lost woman. - Patricia Beer

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Langston Hughes

B. 1902 D. 1967

2 poems available

I, too, sing America. - 'I, Too', Langston Hughes

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10 poems available

My poems are the product of a relationship between a side of my mind which is conscious, alert, educated and manipulative, and a side which is as murky as a primaeval swamp. - Andrew Motion

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Ballad of a Hero - Kae Tempest
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Spinal Secrets - Malika Ndlovu
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“I’ve avoided poems that other writers here have recommended, but which otherwise would certainly have been on my list (such as Richard Wilbur’s superb ‘A Barred Owl’, chosen by Andrew Motion). There are also some astonishing recordings in the historical…

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