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Patience Agbabi

Patience Agbabi

Author Biography & Works

Patience Agbabi FRSL is a British poet and performer who emphasizes the spoken word. Although her poetry addresses contemporary themes, it often makes use of formal constraints, including traditional poetic forms. She has described herself as "bicultural" and bisexual. Issues of racial and gender identity feature in her poetry. She is celebrated "for paying equal homage to literature and performance" and for work that "moves fluidly and nimbly between cultures, dialects, voices; between page and stage." In 2017, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL).

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Books by Patience Agbabi

The Infinite

The Infinite

Elle Ifie was born on 29 February, which makes her a Leapling, and she can travel through time. On her twelfth birthday she and her best friend Big Ben go...

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