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Loyle Carner and John Agard spoke to schoolchildren. The poem is taught in schools across the country, but 28-year-old Loyle only heard it recently on YouTube.

This week, John Agard became the first poet to win the BookTrust lifetime achievement award. Here, judge Frank Cottrell-Boyce pays tribute to him.

John Agard, whose work will be familiar to anyone who has sat English GCSE, delighted the pupils of Burgess Hill Girls when he arrived to perform some of his much-loved poems. Many of the pieces ...

A Caribbean poem of warmth and colour to light up a Monday morning. It’s by the prize-winning Guyanese-born John Agard, who came to Britain in 1977.

Agard’s most recent honour was bestowed in November, 2021, when he became the first poet to win the Book Trust Lifetime Achievement Award in London.

A Caribbean poem of warmth and colour to light up a Monday morning. It’s by the prize-winning Guyanese-born John Agard, who came to Britain in 1977. He is a popular children’s writer, has ...