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Adham Smart was born in 1992 and grew up in Cairo and London. He was three times a ...

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Allan has written over 150 books for children, including classics such as Each Peach ...

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His readings have a musical quality and are also very varied in style. Listen to the ...

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Andrew Fusek Peters (b. 1965) and Polly Peters (b. 1965) have written and edited more ...

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Andrew Wynn Owen is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He received the Newdigate ...

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Benjamin Zephaniah was born in Birmingham, and grew up in Jamaica and in Handsworth, ...

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Many of Berlie’s poems do not have regular stanzas or patterns of rhyme. But if you ...

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Where does poetry end and song begin? It’s hard to tell in Brian Moses’ poetry – and ...

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It’s no wonder that Brian Patten’s poems appeal to both children and adults – he’s a ...

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Causley's poems have a timeless quality. It's possible to imagine poems such as ...

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Chrissie Gittins uses a very wide range of forms and poetic devices – lists and ...

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Dennis has lived all his life in Toronto in Canada, and you will hear his Canadian ...

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