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- Published 20180205
- ISBN: 9781925603293
- Extent: 264pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

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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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