Farewell to city poet; ACOCKS GREEN.FUNERAL arrangements have been made for former Birmingham poet laureate poet laureate (lô`rēĭt), title conferred in Britain by the monarch on a poet whose duty it is to write commemorative odes and verse. and Acocks Green Acocks Green is an area and ward of south Birmingham, England. It is named after the Acock family who built a large house in the area in 1370. Acocks Green is one of the four wards making up Yardley formal district. Nowadays, it is written without an apostrophe. resident Roi Kwabena. Roi, aged 51, used to live in Acocks Green. He died of cancer earlier this month. The service will be held at the Friends Meeting House, Winchmore Hill, Church Hill, London, on Saturday at 2pm. Hall Green community librarian Philip Benjamin-Coker knew Roi through his work. "He was as a lovely man who will be very sorely missed," he said. "We knew he was ill before Christmas but it was a shock when I found out he had died." The event has been planned as a celebration of the Trinidad-born cultural anthropologist's life and is open to any of his friends or admirers. Mourners are not asked to bring flowers but donations can be made in aid of Amnesty International Amnesty International (AI,) human-rights organization founded in 1961 by Englishman Peter Benenson; it campaigns internationally against the detention of prisoners of conscience, for the fair trial of political prisoners, to abolish the death penalty and torture of by calling 01707 659 917. CAPTION(S): FUNERAL... Roi Kwabena. |
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