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3 poems available

Herbert takes on the major forms of ode and elegy, adding satire, comedy and the ancient Scottish tradition of extended insult, as well as modes still undefined. - Sean O'Brien

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John Agard

B. 1949

5 poems available

His poems are direct and arresting, playful, full of startling imagery, and are hilarious, passionate and erotic as often as they are political - often managing to be all these things at once - Maura Dooley

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12 poems available

An engraver in short, sharp slashes that go deep. Andrew Salkey

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4 poems available

Hampton is an open-minded writer, with the uncertainties and hesitations of the true seeker. - Stephen Lawrence

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E E Cummings

B. 1894 D. 1962

1 poem available

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. - E. E. Cummings

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Sylvia Plath

B. 1932 D. 1963

2 poems available

The blood jet is poetry,/ There is no stopping it. - 'Kindness', Sylvia Plath (written 1st February 1963)

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Kit Wright

B. 1944

6 poems available

I think so highly of poetry that I've dedicated my life to it. It's the most important thing to me. - Kit Wright

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John Betjeman

B. 1906 D. 1984

3 poems available

Now if the harvest is over / And the world cold / Give me the bonus of laughter / As I lose hold. - 'A Nip in the Air', John Betjeman

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Jenny Joseph

B. 1932 D. 2018

5 poems available

Why are we frightened of the word for love? - 'Language teaching: naming', Jenny Joseph

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10 poems available

We were testing the range of the human voice - 'The Shout', Simon Armitage

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10 poems available

I've always been concerned to get into [my poetry] the details of daily living which portray - or betray - human strengths and weaknesses and oddities. - Alan Brownjohn

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