26Jul/17
Patience Agbabi
Poet Patience Agbabi FRSL was born ‘waxing lyrical’ in 1965 in London to Nigerian parents. She was fostered from an early age by white parents in North Wales.
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25Jul/17
Moniza Alvi
Born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1954, Moniza Alvi’s parents moved to England while she was an infant. She grew up in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, before attending the…
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24Jul/17
Vahni Capildeo
Born Surya Vahni Priya Capildeo in Port of Spain in 1973, Vahni Capildeo comes from a vaunted and controversial political and literary Trinidadian family. As an established poet…
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23Jul/17
Kayo Chingonyi
Soft spoken and charming in person, Kayo Chingonyi raises his voice and his political verve in performance. Born in Zambia in 1987, Chingonyi moved to the UK at age six…
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22Jul/17
Kwame Dawes
Kwame Dawes is a poet, critic, editor, playwright, storyteller, broadcaster, actor and musician, born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica. The author of twenty books of poetry…
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21Jul/17
Bernardine Evaristo
Born in London, Bernardine Evaristo (1959– ) studied at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and went on to co-found the Theatre of Black Women in 1982.
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21Jul/17
Caleb Femi
Caleb Femi (1990– ) is a poet, filmmaker, and photographer. Born in Kano, Nigeria, he moved to London when he was seven years old, settling in Peckham…
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19Jul/17
Sarah Howe
The daughter of an English father and Chinese mother, Sarah Howe was born in 1983 in Hong Kong. At the age of seven she moved with her family moved to London.
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19Jul/17
Mimi Khalvati
Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1944 and moved to the Isle of Wight, England, when she was six years old. She grew up on the Isle of Wight…
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18Jul/17
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Linton Kwesi Johnson was born in 1952 in Chapelton, a small rural town in Jamaica. He moved to London at the age of 11 to join his mother who had immigrated two years earlier.
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