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Benjamin Zephaniah, Poet of Social Justice Issues, Dies at 65

The New York Times
He opened the door for future generations of poets of color to use their own voices.
10 months ago

5 Somali-British Poets You Need To Know About

BuzzFeed
BuzzFeed talked to five of them about their love of poetry, what it means to them, and what it means to have connections to Somalia, the “nation of poets”.
100 months ago

We Asked British Poets To Share Their Favourite Poems For National Poetry Day

BuzzFeed
Tania Nwachukwu. Amaal Said. Age: 24. Themes in your work: Family, memory, displacement, diaspora, identity, love.
96 months ago

Poetic justice: black lives and the power of poetry

The Guardian
Leading black British poets including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Grace Nichols and Raymond Antrobus share their thoughts on protest, change and the trailblazers who...
51 months ago

‘The poems began to dance among themselves’: curating a fresh mixtape of Black British poetry

The Guardian
A companion to 1998's The Fire People, Kayo Chingonyi's anthology creates a space for a new generation of voices to express the wide range of their work.
28 months ago

Young British poets are encapsulating the experience of lockdown

The Economist
The poems have struck a chord on Twitter for their evocative descriptions of the changes wrought by covid-19 | Prospero.
51 months ago

Robert Crawford · Outbreaks of Poets

London Review of Books
The story of Macmillan's marketing and its advertising of a 'GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES' of volumes is not just a...
15 months ago

Why British poets are bringing the ‘Bro book’ back

The Guardian
From William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, male authors have long collaborated in pairs – and the tradition is now...
90 months ago

Five of the best musical settings of British poems

Classical-Music.com
British poets have long inspired composers with their words. We pick out some of the best classical songs to have taken inspiration from poetry.
36 months ago

5 influential WW1 poets you should know about

HistoryExtra
Here, Ellie Cawthorne highlights five influential British writers whose lives and work were shaped by the conflict.
50 months ago