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Southern belles: romanticism and racism

CONTEMPORARY POETS

Roger Robinson

Roger Robinson is a British writer, musician and performer. He was born in London in the 1960s. His book A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press) won the 2019 T.S. Eliot Prize. ‘Balotelli’ was commissioned as part of the Thinking Outside the Penalty Box project, in a partnership with The Poetry Society’s Young Poets Network.

1 How does Robinson’s use of description in the first stanza build a picture of Balotelli?

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