
John Agard
John Agard was born in Guyana and moved to England in 1977. He writes for children and adults. John’s many awards include the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry (2012), the first CLPE Poetry Award for Under the Moon & Over the Sea (edited with Grace Nichols) in 2003 and the CLiPPA for The Young Inferno (also illustrated by Satoshi Kitamura) in 2009. His poetry features on the GCSE curriculum and he regularly takes part in a performance tour related to this.
His latest collection of poetry The Rainmaker Danced was shortlisted for the CLiPPA 2018.
For more information on John: https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/john-agard and Twitter @JohnAgard1
Resources
Teaching Sequences
Videos
John Agard - When Questions Are Bliss
John Agard - Progress
John Agard - Line
John Agard - The Dew-Stealers
John Agard - Taking Sides
John Agard - Praying Mantis
John Agard - Thorns
John Agard - On The Run From Colours
John Agard - Among The Hairyboos and Smoothyboos
John Agard - Damsel in Distress Rap
John Agard - Frozen Life
John Agard - Goldilocks on CCTV
John Agard - Puss in Trainers
John Agard - Two Plants
John Agard - What Turkey Doing?
John Agard - Windrush Child
John Agard - What the Teacher Said
John Agard - Old World, New World