John Agard
John Agard FRSL is a Guyanese-born British playwright, poet and children’s writer.
John was the first Writer in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre in 1993 and was honoured with a Paul Hamlyn Award in 1997. In 2012, he was selected for the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and was awarded BookTrust’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. His books include Man to Pan (Casa de las Americas Prize, 1982), Mangoes and Bullets, We Animals Would Like a Word With You, and From the Devil’s Pulpit.
John Agard recently launched his new book The Poetry World of John Agard. The volume features 80 of Agard’s very best poems published by Otter-Barry Books and launched at The Poetry Society organised by Melanie Abrahams.
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