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You, Very Young, in New York - Hannah Sullivan
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Nada: hope or nothing - Richard Berengarten
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In The Air - Celia A Sorhaindo
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Thanksgiving - Rachel Long
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Poem for the Breasts - Sharon Olds
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Race Riot, Tulsa, 1921 - Sharon Olds
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In its vivid, hypnotic and often startlingly imaginative qualities, the poetry of Alice Oswald (b. 1966) confirms a unique sensibility at work. From her first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile (1996), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize…

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Patrick Brandon (b.1965) is a regularly exhibiting visual artist whose poems display a painter’s eye for telling detail and a skilled command of striking imagery. His lines frequently tug at the minutiae and junk of our modern lives – a…

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In 2008, Jen Hadfield became the youngest person to win the TS Eliot Prize with her collection Nigh-No-Place. Judge Tobias Hill celebrated her “sheer joy of poetry”, while fellow judge Andrew Motion commented: “she is a remarkably original poet near…

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Jenny Joseph

B. 1932 D. 2018

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Jenny Joseph (b. 1932 – d. 2018) was originally from Birmingham but her first remembered home was in leafy Buckinghamshire. She read English at St Hilda’s College Oxford. A variety of occupations included being a newspaper reporter, lecturer in language…

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Harmonica - Michael Longley
The Mighty Dead

God’s Grandeur

Read by Fred Sedgwick
God’s Grandeur - Gerard Manley Hopkins - Read by Fred Sedgwick
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