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Welcome to our very first poetry club! We are so excited to have you here!
This poetry club will look into the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008).
Darwish won various awards for his poetry and wrote the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, which was the formal declaration for the creation of the State of Palestine.
The poems we will look at are: I Come From There, Identity Card and A Lover From Palestine.
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This week, we'll look at the poetry of Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned poet who sadly passed in 2023. Zephaniah was included in The Times list of Britain's top 50 post-war writers. His work examined his lived experiences of incarceration, racism and his Jamaican heritage.
The poems we will look at are: Talking Turkeys!, We Refugees and Fair Play.
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This session will look at Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913).
Ukrainka was not only a poet but also a playwright and political thinker. She wrote in Ukrainian during a time when the language and culture were heavily repressed under the Russian Empire. Despite suffering from tuberculosis her entire life, she produced some of the most stirring, defiant, and emotionally rich works in Ukrainian literature.
The poems we will look at are: Contra Spem Spero!, and A Former Spring.
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