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Guardian: Rachel Rooney wins CLPE Poetry award – read her poem
[The Guardian (blog)] - Previous winners of the award include established poets such as Jackie Kay, John Agard and Roger McGough. "Winning the CLPE award is incredibly exciting for me - and slightly overwhelming too," said Rooney. "Three years ago, even the thought of having
Ask Lorna: short story collections for a seven-year-old boy
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[Telegraph.co.uk] for Seven-Year-Olds, which includes stories by Margaret Mahy and Jacqueline Wilson , as do Puffin: The Puffin Book of Stories for Seven-Year-Olds includes one of Rudyard Kipling's Just So stories, as well as tales by Francesca Simon and John Agard.
Google News: Nazım Hikmet poem on view at London's subway station
[Iran Book News Agency] - Together with “Baku at Night,” one poem by Sujata Bhatt, Niyi Osundare, John Agard, Imtiaz Dharker and Lotte Kramer will be displayed on the walls. The poems will be included in a booklet of “World Poems on the Underground,” together with the other
Jubilee Lines: 60 Poets For 60 Years, Edited by Carol Ann Duffy
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[The Independent] - John Agard (1973) has a centenarian getting confused (calling Keith Floyd "Pink Floyd"); actually, there are some slips. Gillian Clarke has "Heartbreak Hotel on the gramophone" in 1955, but it wasn't recorded till Grace Nichols recalls Otis
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