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Turkeys jus wanna play reggae
Turkeys jus wanna hip-hop
Can yu imagine a nice young turkey saying,
'I cannot wait for de chop'?
Hot, hip, playful and provocative, here are straight-talking poems from ground-breaking rap poet Benjamin Zephaniah.
Catergories: Book
In her old age, Nell Golightly receives a strange letter. A Tahitian woman, claiming to be the daughter of the poet Rupert Brooke, writes to ask her to describe him. And to explain why all of England remembered him. Turning her mind to the summer of 1909, Nell relives her first encounter with the young poet. She was sixteen, the new housemaid at the Orchard Tea Rooms...
Catergories: Book
This book is a sequence of war poems referring to 20th and 21st century conflicts that have involved British forces: among them, the First World War, the Second World War, the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. Several of the poems are based on memories of the poet’s father.
Catergories: News
The Hong Kong poet and writer, Leung Ping-kwan, has died at the age of 63. Known by his pen name, Ye Si, he'd been battling lung cancer since 2009.
He moved from Guangdong to Hong Kong in 1949 and began writing columns when he was 20. Ye Si won the Hong Kong Chinese Literature Bi-annual Prize three times and was featured as writer of the year at last year's Hong...
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Phil on Morning Brew asked how he found Hong Kong has changed since his last visit 18 years ago. Mr Fenton also shared his experiences as journalist in Indo-China and talked about his recent life in the US.
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Indian writer Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy began with Sea of Poppies, set at the time of the first Opium War, was shortlisted for the 2008 Booker Prize.
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Meira Chand, Amitav Ghosh and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra talked about poetry.
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Benjamin Zephaniah talked to Sarah Passmore about his poems and works.
Catergories: Book
Selected Poems is the first full selection of James Fenton's poems to be published, and represents the whole range of his work from light-verse to political and love poems to opera libretti. It includes early work from The Memory of War and Children in Exile as well as later work from Out of Danger, which won the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1994. Also represented are...
Catergories: Interviews
Sir Andrew Motion talked to Hugh Chiverton about poems.
