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John Agard FRSL (born 21 June 1949) is a Guyanese playwright, poet and children's writer, now living in Britain. In 2012, he was selected for the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry . [ 1 ] He was awarded BookTrust 's Lifetime Achievement Award in November 2021.
The novel received generally positive reviews, though many reviewers pointed out that the book might not have otherwise received national attention had it not been for Colbert's campaign against Amazon, thus "subjecting this modest post-apocalyptic tale to intense scrutiny". [5] The Boston Globe, though, called the novel "a mostly solid first ...
The 2004 AQA Anthology was a collection of poems and short texts. The anthology was split into several sections covering poems from other cultures, the poetry of Seamus Heaney, [4] Gillian Clarke, Carol Ann Duffy and Simon Armitage, and a bank of pre-1914 poems.
The Flag Act of 1777 ("Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, 8:464".) was passed by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1777, in response to a petition made by a Native American nation on June 3 for "an American Flag." [2] As a result, June 14 is now celebrated as Flag Day in the United States.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing a bill that would require the state Department of Insurance to review rate-hike requests from home insurers within 60 days as companies pull back from the market due ...
Erik Agard (fl. 2018–present), American crossword puzzler; Ernesto Agard (born 1937), Panamanian basketball player; E. Theo Agard (1932–2017), American medical physicist; John Agard (born 1949), playwright, poet and children's writer from Guyana; Laura Agard (born 1989), French football player; Melissa Agard (born 1969), American politician
The flag's design has evolved to become more inclusive of diverse disabilities. The amended flag now displays stripes to represent solidarity among the various sub-communities of disabled people.
The lawsuit, filed by longtime lifeguard Jeffrey Little, accuses L.A. County of religious discrimination for requiring him to work at lifeguard tower near a Pride flag last summer.