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How poetry turned a failing comprehensive into one of Oxford’s most oversubscribed schools

4 May 2019

9:00 AM

4 May 2019

9:00 AM

Kate Clanchy is an extraordinary person. She is a veteran of 30 years’ teaching in difficult state schools, as well as an acclaimed poet (awarded an MBE in 2018 for services to literature) who has nurtured a generation of successful young migrant writers.

In 2006 she was one of the judges for the Foyle young poets of the year award.

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