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David Constantine
B. 1944
“Poetry now, every bit as much as in the Romantic age, is a utopian demonstration, by aesthetic means, of what true freedom would be like. It engages us to imagine something better than what at present we are afflicted with;…
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David Wagoner
B. 1926 D. 2021
David Wagoner is widely regarded as the leading poet of the Pacific Northwest. He was born in Ohio and grew up in Indiana, where his mother, a trained opera singer, sang German lieder around the house. He has spoken in…
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David Morley
B. 1964
David Morley is an ecologist, poet, editor and teacher. Emerging with Releasing Stone (Arc, 1989), he has since published five collections with Carcanet, the most recent, The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems (2015), won the 2015 Ted Hughes Award; his previous collection, The…
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David Dabydeen
B. 1955
David Dabydeen (David Horace Clarence Harilal Sookram) was born in 1955, in Berbice, Guyana. His second name, Dabydeen, is taken from his mother, Veronica Dabydeen, who raised him, along with his maternal grandparents, after her divorce. Dabydeen regards his time…
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David Harsent
B. 1942
David Harsent (b. 1942) won the 2005 Forward Prize for Legion, which was also shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and the TS Eliot Award; he has also been the recipient of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award, an Eric Gregory Award,…
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David Kinloch
B. 1959
From Scots dialect to Frank O’Hara and the New York School, from the candidly personal to unusual dramatic monologues, David Kinloch’s poetry is stylistically, thematically and emotionally wide-ranging. Kinloch first emerged, alongside Robert Crawford and other now established names, as…
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David Gascoyne
B. 1916 D. 2001
David Gascoyne (1916-2001) was born in Harrow, the son of a bank manager, and educated at Salisbury Cathedral School. However, it didn’t take the young Gascoyne long to leave this conservative background behind, publishing his first poetry collection at the…
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David Eggleton
B. 1952
Of Rotuman, Tongan and European/Pakeha ancestry, David Eggleton was raised in Auckland and Fiji. As well as his poetry, Eggleton writes extensively on New Zealand art and music, edits New Zealand’s pre-eminent literary journal, Landfall and is an acclaimed literary…
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David Jones
B. 1895 D. 1974
A graphic artist, painter and wood engraver as well as a poet, Jones’ work is recorded as being influenced by his Christian faith and Welsh roots although he was born in Brockley, South-East London. Jones became a Catholic in 1921….
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David Musgrave
B. 1965
David Musgrave (b. 1965) traces his ancestry to English and Irish convicts and free settlers who came to Australia in the early nineteenth century. Among his forebears are an American Sea captain from Nantucket, a fifteen year old convict from…
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David Wheatley
B. 1970
Flitting between book smarts and wry humour, lyric eloquence and occasionally acerbic bluntness, the poetry of David Wheatley shares much in common with the prose he writes as a respected critic, and for which he is perhaps better known. But…
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Trying to Write a Poem While the Couple in the Apartment Overhead Make Love - David Wagoner
She’s like a singer straying slowly off key while trying too hard to remember the words to a song without words, and her accompanist is metronomically dead set to sustain her pitch and tempo, and meanwhile, under their feathers…
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by Rachel Davies
after Josephine Corcoran This poem will only mention daffodils in passing. It will never smoke dope in its man-cave or fight a Greek war to forget its sexy sister. This poem didn’t go to Oxbridge. It never joined debating…
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This Poem is Alive Because it is Unfinished - Richard Harrison
My father is alive, I dared to type, and there he was: my father, who blew kisses to the young women who tended him in his infirmary bed, and fed him what he could drink of the world in its…
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How to Write a Poem (from ‘Three Instructive Poems’) - John Watson
1. How to write a poem The first line must begin With a succinct, even abrupt Completion of the sentence Begun in the title. By the third or fourth line Which must be notably longer A superior word looms up…
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Rituals Before the Poem - Kwame Dawes
In terror they will drink water grudgingly Ezekiel 4 Before the poem comes like a word from a brazen sky the poet must lie on his side for a year eating only dry bread and measured bowls of water. The…