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In these challenging times we’ve curated a collection of poems which reflect different aspects of war, conflict and loss. Whilst highlighting the human cost of war by representing individual and shared grief, these poems affirm our collective humanity and speak…

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Steve - Rachel Long
Poet

6 poems available

“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 ”

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Boy Grandad - Flora de Falbe
Poet

5 poems available

A poet confident in her mastery of the medium -- J.M. Coetzee

Poet

6 poems available

'Completely original, both very funny and existentially bleak. No-one else is writing poems remotely like these'. Magma

Poet

6 poems available

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

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Robert Burns

B. 1759 D. 1796

3 poems available

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'

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Michael Donaghy

B. 1954 D. 2004

6 poems available

I'm in it for the discovery. - Michael Donaghy

The Mighty Dead

Anthem for Doomed Youth

Read by Andrew Motion
Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen - Read by Andrew Motion
The Mighty Dead

The Send-off

Read by Andrew Motion
The Send-off - Wilfred Owen - Read by Andrew Motion
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Little Boy Crying - Mervyn Morris
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