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DURING one of my poetry classes with some 14-year-olds in Sheffield in 1993, a Pakistani boy and a Yemeni boy, Fiaz and Ghamdan, combined to write the poem Mizu — the Japanese word for water — about the human catastrophe of Hiroshima.
“Mizu! Mizu!”
Say the people of Hiroshima,
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