John “The Bug Man” Agard, 81, of Chattanooga, passed away Tuesday, April 21st, 2020 in a local health care facility. John was born in Chicago, but had lived for a number of years in the Chattanooga ...

"And in your utmost imaginings/ I began new weavings// spinning rainbow cloths from history's rubble." Agard grew up in Guyana and now lives in England; his accessible, syncopated verse, in dialect ...

A while ago an English teacher friend of mine took his class to the GCSE Poetry Live! event. They were moderately well-behaved during the morning, he reports, but after lunch the teenage audience were ...

Agard, From the Devil’s Pulpit All the talk about Guyanese-British poet John Agard recently has been centered around his being awarded The Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry for 2012. His adopted society, ...

Ahead of receiving the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, the poet John Agard tells Felicity Capon about his poetry, growing up in Guyana and what he thinks of British society today. The poet John Agard, ...

Guyana-born poet John Agard has been named as the recipient of The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2012. The award is presented for excellence in poetry, with previous recipients including WH Auden, ...

One was clearly most amused. Her Majesty saw the funny side yesterday as she presented a poetry award - which has an image of a naked woman on the back. The monarch shared a laugh with John Agard, ...

Guyana-born poet John Agard has been named as the recipient of The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2012. The award is presented for excellence in poetry, with previous recipients including WH Auden, ...

Buckingham Palace has announced that the poet John Agard is to be awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry 2012. The decision was made by the Poetry Medal Committee headed by the Poet Laureate Carol ...