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James Berry - Children's Poems

Distinguished poet, James Berry, often returns to his Jamaican childhood for the sound and subject matter of his poems. In this interview he describes these early influences and how he shapes them into finished...
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I really enjoyed listening to all the poems in the Archive. It's fantastic to hear poets reading their own work. It...

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