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Radio 4,5 mins

Two young poets who sing stories of migration and home

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Prize winning poet and teacher Kate Clanchy is joined by her students Mukahang Limbu and Asima Qayyum to talk about their latest project, an anthology of poems called England: Poems from a School. The poems are written by children at the Oxford Spires Academy, a small comprehensive school where students speak 30 languages and where Kate Clanchy runs poetry workshops that explore the pain of migration and the process of building a new home.

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