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The Wordview 2022 collection showcases our winning 2022 poets and their work that captures this extraordinary year for future reflection.

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Celebrating 100 years of poetry on the BBC with Poet Laureate Simon Armitage

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Stephen Lightbown – 10 poems from ‘The Last Custodian’ - Stephen Lightbown
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Stephen Lightbown was born in Blackburn, Lancashire.  In 1996, aged 16, he experienced a life-changing accident and is now paralysed from below the waist.  Lightbown writes extensively but not exclusively about his life as a wheelchair user. He teaches yoga…

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Imtiaz Dharker and Malika Booker – ‘Between The Ears’ for BBC 100 - Imtiaz Dharker
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Last Words - Michael Symmons Roberts
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Doun de Road - Linton Kwesi Johnson
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Wendy Cope reading the work of Eleanor Farjeon – for BBC 100 - Eleanor Farjeon
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The Sundial - Gillian Clarke
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‘Jaguar Girl’ for BBC 100 - Pascale Petit
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The Applicant - Sylvia Plath
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‘Idanre’ for BBC 100 - Wole Soyinka
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In Parenthesis - David Jones
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Windrush Child - John Agard
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ABC in Sound - Bob Cobbing
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