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Stephen Lightbown – 10 poems from ‘The Last Custodian’ - Stephen Lightbown
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Mark McWatt
B. 1947
Strands of autobiography, a deeply sensuous ecology of place, historical narratives; the inner world of imagination and the often difficult realities of the postcolonial nation are interwoven in McWatt's bold but carefully worked out architecture. Peepal Tree
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William Blake
B. 1757 D. 1827
The imagination is not a State: it is the Human existence itself. William Blake
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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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Alastair Reid
B. 1926 D. 2014
I travelled, however, mainly to find places to come to rest in, places to write in, oases.
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Jack Mapanje
B. 1944
Where is the spirit that touched the hearts / Lightly - chameleon colours of home? - 'Visiting Zomba Plateau', Jack Mapanje