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'I'm a Parrot' by Grace Nichols (dramatisation and analysis)
An artist, Tam Joseph, paints a picture of a group of parrots flying in a forest, as a backdrop to the reading by the writer, Grace Nichols, of the poem 'I'm a Parrot'. This describes the frustration of a parrot which is shut in a cage when it would prefer to be in its natural environment.
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