John Agard

John Agard was born on 21 June 1949 in British Guiana and grew up in Georgetown, where he developed a taste for words by imitating cricket commentaries on the radio. A language teacher, a library clerk, then an editor at the Guyana Sunday Chronicle, he joined the All-ah-We troupe in 1975 and published two books before settling in England in 1977 with the poet Grace Nichols. He worked for the Commonwealth Institute and for the BBC, received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2012, and lives in Lewes.

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• PoetryMan to PanJohn Agard · 1982Literature