Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild.

Diderot

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This term's poet is Kei Miller

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Jean Cocteau

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Guided Tours

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Helen Gray

As a secondary schoolteacher in London for the past thirty years, it has been my privilege to have had a job which at its core, involves getting teena...

Helen Gray's tour

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The Children's Archive

This part of the Archive is full of poems chosen specially for children. Meet old favourites and make new discoveries.

Paul Farley

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