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

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Dirge for Unwin

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Grace’s poems are full of the sounds and stories of Guyana, the Caribbean country where ...

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John is one of the most electrifying readers around, and the energy and dazzle he ...

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John’s poems sway and sing with the sounds and rhythms of his childhood in Trinidad and ...

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Rhythm is at the heart of the ways in which John grabs us and brings us along as he ...

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