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The Iliad is a long poem – an epic – thought to have first ... is at the heart of both Homer’s Iliad and the art of battle rap. This article is part of Rethinking the Classics.

Glenn Patterson is founding patron of Fighting Words NI and director of the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast ...

He turned to rap battles and poetry slams to make ends meet as he ... "I had no background or interest in education. I did love learning, though. I often say I became a teacher because I hated ...

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