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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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Alice Oswald
B. 1966
Alice Oswald throws the windows of the imagination open; she places a fingertip on the pulse of tradition, and proves it is still very much alive - The Times
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Patrick Brandon
B. 1965
An exciting new voice ... his poems are carefully crafted and have a catholic appeal ... there is something painterly in how Brandon guides you through his work, like a diagonal guiding the eye. - Poetry London
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Jen Hadfield
B. 1978
I go to the rockpool at the slack of tide/ to mind me what my poetry's for. - Jen Hadfield from 'Daed-traa'.
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Jenny Joseph
B. 1932 D. 2018
Why are we frightened of the word for love? - 'Language teaching: naming', Jenny Joseph