2014.11.16 诗人约翰-阿加德

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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the poet John Agard.

His work is studied widely in British schools. He was the BBC's first poet in residence and along with WH Auden and Philip Larkin, he's a recipient of The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

Born in Guyana he arrived here in the mid-1970s already playing with words like some people play with musical notes. If his style is often satirical, his subjects provide wincing realism - examining the scars of slavery or the historical myopia of a shared past judged solely through European eyes.

He says he believes that "the poet keeps us in touch with the vulnerable core of language that makes us what we are."



克尔斯蒂-杨本周的弃儿是诗人约翰-阿加德。

他的作品在英国学校中被广泛研究。他是BBC的第一位驻校诗人，与WH-奥登和菲利普-拉金一样，他也是女王诗歌金奖的获得者。

他出生在圭亚那，1970年代中期来到这里，已经像一些人玩弄音符一样玩弄文字。如果说他的风格经常是讽刺性的，那么他的主题则提供了令人震惊的现实主义--审视奴隶制的伤痕或仅通过欧洲人的眼睛判断共同的过去的历史近视。

他说他相信，"诗人让我们与语言的脆弱核心保持联系，这使我们成为我们自己"。