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Stephen Lightbown – 10 poems from ‘The Last Custodian’ - Stephen Lightbown
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By Yourself Boy… (1988 – 2007) - Nii Ayikwei Parkes
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Blowing Smoke - Nii Ayikwei Parkes
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Outside St Dominic’s Priory: Snapshot, July 2015 - Keith Jarrett
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Witness of, not survivor of - Jade Cuttle
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Compass Point Lullabies for Emily - Magnus Dixon
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It’s Chinatown - Flora de Falbe
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Alan Jenkins
B. 1955
His poetry is what all poetry should be, the surprising and beautiful organisation of things that life has disorganised. John Fuller
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Stephen Romer
B. 1957
'One of our finest poets of thwarted or impossible love' - Adam Thorpe, the Guardian
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Maurice Riordan
B. 1953
Maurice Riordan's patient, contemplative poems of love and memory follow the example of Robert Frost in slowly releasing their reach and complexity while maintaining hailing distance of the proverbial - Sean O'Brien
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John Fairfax
B. 1930 D. 2009
John Fairfax's poems return us to the important sources: spells they braid linger and haunt like sweetness of a wood after rain. - Adam Thorpe
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Mick Imlah
B. 1956 D. 2009
A poet of striking originality and cunning, a genuinely distinctive voice in the murmur and babble of the contemporary - Neil Corcoran