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Hostile Environment - Keith Jarrett
Poet
Keith Jarrett
B. 1984
“..and only they, children, excellent students of their own self worth, do know the value of their lives - from 'Outside St Dominic's Priory. Snapshot, July 2015'”
Poet
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
B. 1991
“I myself am bored / of fig leaves, of shames / I did not choose” – from ‘About Ana’
Poet
Nick Makoha
B. 1974
“The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself” – Derek Walcott
Poetry Archive Now
by Yuan Changming
Poetry Archive Now
by Merrie Joy Williams
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by Brian China
Poet
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?”