John Agard
Poet, playwright, performer and anthologist
Afro-Guyanese poet, playwright, performer and anthologist. Awarded the Queens’ Gold Medal for Poetry (2012), books include We Brits and The Young Inferno.
I is palm tree kingFrom ‘Palm Tree King’ in Palm Tree King (London: Pluto Press, 1993)
I know palm tree history
like de palm o me hand
The sun may set on empireFrom ‘Alternative Anthem’ in We Brits (Northumberland: Bloodaxe, 2006)
but the kettle never stops.
John Agard
by Maud Sulter
colour polaroid photograph, 2001
NPG P949(1)
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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