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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.
Half-Caste" is a poem by Guyanese poet John Agard that looks at people's ideas and usage of the term "half-caste", a derogatory term for people of multiracial descent. The poem is included within Agard's 2005 collection of the same name, in which he explores a range of issues affecting black and mixed-race identity in the UK. The poem is ...
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.
News for Babylon: The Chatto Book of Westindian-British Poetry was a 1984 anthology of West Indian and black British poetry, edited by Jamaican poet James Berry and published in London by Chatto & Windus.
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John Agard and Grace Nichols, A Caribbean Dozen: A Collection of Poems, London: Walker Books (children's book) [4] James Berry, Playing a Dazzler [14] Ciarán Carson: Opera Et Cetera, Bloodaxe, Wake Forest University Press, Irish poet published in the United Kingdom; Carol Ann Duffy: Salmon - Carol Ann Duffy: Selected Poems, Salmon Poetry [15]
The poem describes four people stuck at traffic lights in downtown San Francisco - two are garbage collectors and two are an elegant couple in a Mercedes. The poem is about the contrast between these people and the gap that is developing between the rich and poor even in the USA which is meant to be a 'democracy'.
[5] [6] Relatives of poet John Agard claim descent from Nanny. According to one Maroon legend, Nanny's name was also Sarah "Matilda" Rowe, but that has not been verified. The Rowe family of Jamaica claim direct descent from Nanny.