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Blowing Smoke - Nii Ayikwei Parkes
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Guerilla Garden Writing Poem - Inua Ellams
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Until the fabric speaks & the textile is a text - Victoria Adukwei Bulley
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Keith Jarrett
B. 1984
Keith Jarret is a former UK Poetry Slam Champion and FLUPP International Poetry Slam Winner from London. He rose to prominence on the city’s performance poetry scene and was one of the first writers to study on the groundbreaking Spoken Word Educators programme at Goldsmiths University.
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Rachel Long
B. 1988
Rachel Long is the founder of Octavia Poetry Collective for Womxn of Colour, a ‘fiercely community-minded’ collective formed in direct response to the lack of inclusivity and representation in literature and the academy.
Poetry Archive Now
by Akpa Arinzechukwu
Poetry Archive Now
by James McDermott
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by Maggie Mackay
Poetry Archive Now
by Merrie Joy Williams
The Mighty Dead
God’s Grandeur
Read by Simon Russell Beale
God’s Grandeur - Gerard Manley Hopkins - Read by Simon Russell Beale
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A Portable Paradise - Roger Robinson
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Sharon Olds
B. 1942
Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco in 1942. She studied at Stanford University and received her PhD from Columbia University, where she wrote a thesis on Ralph Waldo Emerson. She has published twelve books of poems, including Satan Says (1980), The Father (1992), Stag’s Leap (2012), Odes (2016)…