Bards in white flannels

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  • Published 20180206
  • ISBN: 9781925603293
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

Here’s to those postcolonial Bards in white flannels

wielding the willow like their consonants and vowels,

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John Agard

John Agard is an Afro-Guyanese playwright, poet, short-story and children’s writer based in south-east England. His poetry has won the Casa de las Américas...

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