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Wild Garlic


By Seán Hewitt

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Why I Left the Garden


By Ama Codjoe

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The Dawn's Awake


By Otto Leland Bohanan

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Aubade at the City of Change


By Aldo Amparán

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Prelude


By J. M. Synge

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This Thing Called Gardening


By John Agard

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Umpaowastewin / Daybreak Woman


By Margaret Noodin

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The Fish


By Elizabeth Bishop

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Oft, in the Stilly Night (Scotch Air)


By Thomas Moore

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Our Bodies, Our Rules

By Sky Hawkins

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Kubla Khan

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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News

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Belfast Book Festival 2025

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UK Global Majority Poets on Film 2025 with WritersMosaic

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Winter update: 31 poets, 75 poems

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15th Annual PoetryFest at Irish Arts Center

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Film screening at Film and Video Poetry Symposium

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Our aim is to expand access to poetry and educational poetry materials, gathering great poems from across places, eras, and traditions.

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«Our mission is to bring the legacy of poetry to a younger generation.»

Sample47 CATHY HALSTEAD – FOUNDER

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Poet in the City

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