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- Abbie Farwell Brown
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- Aimé Césaire
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- Alice B. Fogel
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- Alice Walker
- Ali Alizadeh
- Allen Curnow
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- Alootook Ipellie
- Amal Dunqul
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- Andries Walter Oliphant
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- Anonymous
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- A.R.D. Fairburn
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- Camille Rankine
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- Daljit Nagra
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- Derek Walcott
- Diane di Prima
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- Dilip Chitre
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- Douglas Malloch
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- Eavan Boland
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- Erich Fried
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- Gabriela Mistral
- Gabriel Okara
- Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh
- Galaktion Tabidze
- Galway Kinnell
- Garrett Hongo
- Gary Snyder
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- Gcina Mhlope
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- George Santayana
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- Georgia Douglas Johnson
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Gieve Patel
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- Gillian Clarke
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- Giusue Carducci
- Gloria Anzaldua
- Glynn Young
- Grace Nichols
- Gregory Orr
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- Gulzar
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Gwendolyn MacEwen
- Gwen Harwood
- Gwyneth Lewis
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- Haiku Poems
- Haki R. Madhubuti
- Hala al-Dosari
- Hannah Dains
- Hannah F. Gould
- Harold Pinter
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- Hilaire Belloc
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- Howard Nemerov
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- Jackie Kay
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- Jamaal May
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- Kae Tempest
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- Ladan Osman
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- Mafika Gwala
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- Pablo Neruda
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- Phillippa Yaa de Villiers
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- Pierre Alex Jeanty
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- Poetry Anthologies from Educational Syllabuses
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- Preeyakit Buranasin
- Primo Levi
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- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rachel Mckibbens
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- Raisin
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- Sadakichi Hartmann
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- Tatamkhulu Afrika
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- Wallace Stevens
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