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Shami Chakrabarti on Poetry and Human Rights

Shami Chakrabarti
on Poetry and Human Rights

May 18, 2016
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Poetry is a perfect form to challenge human rights abuses The former director of Liberty explains why she feels poets are able to give such…

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Poetry and Human Rights Carolyn Forché and Shami Chakrabarti

Poetry and Human Rights
Carolyn Forché and Shami Chakrabarti

May 11, 2016
by ncla
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Carolyn Forché in discussion with Shami Chakrabarti at the Curtis Auditorium. This event took place on 11th May 2016.

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Carolyn Forché and Shami Chakrabarti

Carolyn Forché and Shami Chakrabarti

May 11, 2016
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Carolyn Forché in discussion with Shami Chakrabarti at the Curtis Auditorium. This event took place on 11th May 2016. Find out more about Poetry of…

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Newcastle Poetry Festival 2016

Newcastle Poetry Festival 2016

May 7, 2016
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Images from the Newcastle Poetry Festival 2016 which took place between 5th May and 7th May 2016 at the Northern Stage. To find out more about…

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Isabel Galleymore 2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award First Prize

Isabel Galleymore
2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award First Prize

May 5, 2016
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The Limpet & the Drill-Tongued Whelk Across the rockpool floor, a limpet grazes – a stray magician’s cup, moon-textured, the shape of light pointing through…

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Jake Campbell 2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Second Prize

Jake Campbell
2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Second Prize

May 5, 2016
by ncla
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‘Love’, not ‘Pet’ (Saltney Melancholy) Cutting the engine at St Deiniol’s, it’s 8.45 and the sun has just dragged itself out of slumber. Same place…

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Elvire Roberts  2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Third Prize

Elvire Roberts
2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Third Prize

May 5, 2016
by ncla
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Please click on the image below to read the poem

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Alice West 2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person’s Prize Winner, 15 – 19

Alice West
2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person’s Prize Winner, 15 – 19

May 5, 2016
by ncla
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10 ways to crack an egg With our smallest hands it ends like this: Crumpled, a bewildered face, sticky fingers Or Running from a height,…

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Michelle Fae D Souza 2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person’s Prize Winner, 15 – 19

Michelle Fae D Souza
2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person’s Prize Winner, 15 – 19

May 5, 2016
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Flip Side I am awake. I open my watery eyes Trapped. I am not What I wanted to be. I am Lost. I am no…

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Tommy Irons 2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person’s Prize Winner, 15 - 19

Tommy Irons
2016 Basil Bunting Poetry Award Young Person’s Prize Winner, 15 – 19

May 5, 2016
by ncla
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NGC 6302 “There’s a small line of justification where one can want and one can need, but if one can (and has the ability to)…

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