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Fred D’Aguiar
B. 1960
I want that next poem. To get it I'll shed my skin, I'll lose my name, pretend I have no history, be history's fool, become elemental, all of these, none of these. - Fred D'Aguiar
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We Wear the Mask
Read by David Yezzi
We Wear the Mask - Paul Laurence Dunbar - Read by David Yezzi
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On being brought from Africa to America
Read by Mary Jo Salter
On being brought from Africa to America - Phyllis Wheatley - Read by Mary Jo Salter
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Guys like Gauguin - Selina Tusitala Marsh
Poem
The Levite’s Concubine - David Kinloch
Poem
Punk with Dulcimer - Anna Crowe
Poem
Kaspar Hauser - Clive Wilmer
Poem
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Epistle to Cobham from Moral Essays (extract)
Read by John Fuller
Epistle to Cobham from Moral Essays (extract) - Alexander Pope - Read by John Fuller
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Housing Targets - Kelwyn Sole
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Ballad of the Bread Man - Charles Causley
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The hog, the sheep and the goat, carrying to a fair
Read by Jo Shapcott
by Anne Finch