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Spent the Afternoon at a Community Centre Workshop Teaching Poetry to Teenagers Who Insisted They Hated Poetry Until They Didn’t

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Spent the Afternoon at a Community Centre Workshop Teaching Poetry to Teenagers Who Insisted They Hated Poetry Until They Didn’t – Amara Okonkwo-Bassey’s diary on teaching, scepticism, and watching resistant students find something worth writing

Got Into a Genuinely Passionate Debate at a Poetry Collective Meeting About Whether Translated African Poetry Loses Something Essential

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Got Into a Genuinely Passionate Debate at a Poetry Collective Meeting About Whether Translated African Poetry Loses Something Essential – Amara Okonkwo-Bassey’s diary on translation, language politics, and an argument that got genuinely heated

Spent the Evening Reading Through Old Family Letters From Nigeria and Found the Beginning of an Entirely New Poem I Wasn’t Looking For

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Spent the Evening Reading Through Old Family Letters From Nigeria and Found the Beginning of an Entirely New Poem I Wasn’t Looking For – Amara Okonkwo-Bassey’s diary on family archives and the unexpected gift of finding new material in old letters

Read My Work at a Genuinely Prestigious London Literary Event for the First Time and Spent Half the Reading Convinced I Didn’t Belong There

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Read My Work at a Genuinely Prestigious London Literary Event for the First Time and Spent Half the Reading Convinced I Didn’t Belong There – Amara Okonkwo-Bassey’s diary on impostor syndrome, a big stage, and getting through it anyway