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Windrush Child - John Agard
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‘Rubaiyat’ for BBC 100 - Mimi Khalvati
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Great Sporting Moments - Simon Armitage
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Anne Carson
B. 1950
Ann Carson was born in Canada and studied at the University of Toronto. An academic and scholar, she has taught at several institutions, including McGill and the University of Michigan. She is an expert in ancient Greece, classical and Hellenic…
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Eagle Poem - Joy Harjo
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Joy Harjo
B. 1951
Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She was the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold that honour. She served three terms as the United States’ Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry and…
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Child with Pillar Box and Bin Bags - Kathleen Jamie
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Dis Poetry - Benjamin Zephaniah
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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…