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by Rachel Long
Steve - Rachel Long
Poet
Rachel Long
B. 1988
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. -Toni Morrison ”
Poem
Boy Grandad - Flora de Falbe
Poet
Poet
Lorraine Mariner
B. 1974
'Completely original, both very funny and existentially bleak. No-one else is writing poems remotely like these'. Magma
Poet
Christopher Reid
B. 1949
Reid is a poet who lives on in the mind, becomes part of one's inner vocabulary. In every poetic generation that are not more than one or two like that. - The Poetry Review
Poet
Robert Burns
B. 1759 D. 1796
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee, warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee. - Robert Burns 'Song: ae fond kiss and then we sever'
Poet
The Mighty Dead
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Read by Andrew Motion
by Wilfred Owen
Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen - Read by Andrew Motion
The Mighty Dead
The Send-off
Read by Andrew Motion
by Wilfred Owen