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Ahana Banerji
Ahana Banerji is an 18-year-old sixth form student from London. She has placed in various youth poetry competitions, including the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award in 2019, 2020, and 2021. She has a special interest in postcolonial identity and is currently developing a manuscript. 

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Leaving tongues

Prize Entry

February 2022

Ahana Banerji

Prize Entry

February 2022

You wrap my fingers in the leaves, wintergreen,  twisting psalms between loose teeth.    Bound, I swear to something sharp  as my father’s nose,...

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July 2015

Talk Into My Bullet Hole

Rose McLaren

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July 2015

‘Someday people are going to read about you in a story or a poem. Will you describe yourself for...

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January 2013

A Black Hat, Silence and Bombshells : Michael Hofmann at Cambridge & After

Stephen Romer

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January 2013

The black hat and the black coat I was familiar with, before I knew their owner. It was Cambridge,...

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November 2013

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

George Szirtes

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November 2013

And so they shone, every one of them, each crazy, everyone a diamond shining the way things shine, each...

 

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