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John Agard talks about being a black poet.
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Desert Island Discs | John Agard
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the poet John Agard. Born in Guyana he arrived here in the mid-1970s already playing with words like some people play with musical notes. If his style is often satirical, his subjects provide wincing realism - examining the scars of slavery or the historical myopia of a shared past judged solely through European eyes.
Video Nation: John Agard | Grey
John Agard, the BBC poet in residence performs a poem about the British weather entitled "Grey".