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

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At the Pantomime

0:49 listening time

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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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Billy McBone

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Blancmange

2:17 listening time

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Blast off!

Poetry has the power to take us to new places, lifting off from the known world to ...

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Bounce and Rhyme

The bounce and rhyme collection is made especially for under 5s.

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Brendon Gallacher

2:07 listening time

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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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