John Agard FRSL (born 21 June 1949) is a Guyanese playwright, poet and children's writer, now living in Britain.
[3] He went on to study English, French and Latin at A-Level, writing his first published poetry when he was in the sixth form, and left school in 1967.
His poems "Half Caste" and "Checking Out Me History" have been featured in the Edexcel and AQA English GCSE anthologies respectively, meaning that many students (aged 13–16) have studied his work for their GCSE English qualifications.
[9] Archival literary records consisting of "letters and proofs relating to the published poetry works of John Agard" are held at Newcastle University Special Collections, in the Bloodaxe Books Archive.
[10] Agard lives in Lewes, East Sussex, with his partner, the Guyanese poet Grace Nichols.