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I believe that in all diverse forms of artistic expression across all countries, there are some sensitivities in common. Esther Phillips

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Glyn Maxwell covers a greater distance in a single line than most people do in a poem. Joseph Brodsky

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In the face of loss - human, natural, temporal - McQueen finds salvation in language. Often her work is about artistic endeavour itself: the desire to freeze time, the realisation that this is impossible - Sarah Quigley

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Wilfred Owen

B. 1893 D. 1918

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My subject is War and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Wilfred Owen

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A dynamic reader, Eggleton has a rapid-fire delivery that releases a torrent of images, some startling, ugly, or funny - Greg O'Brien

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

B. 1844 D. 1889

6 poems available

“A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.”

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Rest on memory's sea-bed: we will swim down to thee. - Andrew Johnston, 'The Sunflower'

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John Montague

B. 1929 D. 2016

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some pure thing, / Some living source, half-imagined and half-real, / Pulses in the fictive water that I feel. - John Montague, 'The Water Carrier'

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Austin Clarke

B. 1896 D. 1974

Burn Ovid with the rest. Lovers will find/ A hedge-school for themselves and learn by heart/ All that the clergy banish from the mind,/ When hands are joined and head bows in the dark. - 'Penal Law' by Austin Clarke

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Sylvia Plath

B. 1932 D. 1963

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

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There is something white stars say to you/and you throw off all the night to hear the sound of falling snow. - 'White Noise', Kevin Crossley-Holland

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