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You will hear that John reads with quite a serious tone, even for the humorous poems – ...

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The writer and performer John Hegley has been described as the Spike Milligan for our ...

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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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Joseph grew up in Roehampton on the outskirts of London. Living in a tower block and ...

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Judith makes use of traditional poetic forms, including ballad and riddle. Some of the ...

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Kit uses rhythm and rhyme as well as assonance and alliteration to create poems that ...

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Before she became a writer, Laura studied psychology and philosophy and worked as a ...

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Magnus Dixon was emboldened to keep writing after winning the Foyle Young Poets of the ...

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Mandy’s poems are filled with joy and delight and often explore and mirror the ...

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Matt Goodfellow was born in Withington, Manchester, and grew up in Cheadle, Stockport. ...

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Born in Donegal in Ireland, Matthew Sweeney was one of the most original poets writing ...

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