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Benjamin Zephaniah

Library Ology

by Benjamin Zephaniah

Library Ology

I have a date with Su Ling Lee
We're meeting by the library
At 5 o'clock by history
I'll show her some mythology
And if we have the energy
We'll check out some theology...

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Brian Patten

The Armada

by Brian Patten

Long long ago
when everything I was told was believable
and the little I knew was less limited than now,
I stretched belly down on the grass beside a pond
and to the far bank launched a child's...

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Daljit Nagra

Daljit Nagra

From time to time a poet is in residence at the Poetry Archive, talking about poetry with anyone who wants to join in the conversation.

Comic Verse

I'm troubled, as you can tell by my introduction, about comic verse. Comic verse gets bad press because rigid notions of comedy foreground throwaway poems. Surely the best comedy is when the poem surprises us into laughter rather than setting up t... >

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