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Michael Donaghy
B. 1954 D. 2004
The death of Michael Donaghy (1954-2004) robbed the poetry world of one of its most talented and charismatic practitioners. Born in New York of Irish descent, Donaghy grew up in the Bronx where his exposure to Irish culture instilled in…
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Dearest, note how these two are alike: This harpsichord pavane by Purcell And the racer’s twelve-speed bike. The machinery of grace is always simple. This chrome trapezoid, one wheel connected To another of concentric gears, Which Ptolemy dreamt of and…
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Dropping a canape in my beaujolais At some reception, opening or launch, I recall briefly the brother I never had Presiding at less worldly rituals: The only man at my wedding not wearing a tie; Avuncular, swaddling my nephew…
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‘Play us one we’ve never heard before’ we’d ask this old guy in our neighbourhood. He’d rosin up a good three or four seconds, stalling, but he always could. This was the Bronx in 1971, when every night the sky…
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Don’t be afraid, old son, it’s only me, though not as I’ve appeared before, on the battlements of your signature, or margin of a book you can’t throw out, or darkened shop front where your face first shocks itself into…
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Please hang up… I try again “My father’s sudden death has shocked us all” Even me, and I’ve just made it up, Like the puncture, the cheque in the post, Or my realistic cough. As I’m believed, I’m off…
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One didn’t know the name of Tarzan’s monkey. Another couldn’t strip the cellophane From a GI’s pack of cigarettes. By such minutiae were the infiltrators detected. By the second week of battle We’d become obsessed with trivia. At a…
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Jane Duran
B. 1944
Jane Duran (b. 1944) is a writer whose work is often preoccupied with memory and exile. Born in Cuba, she grew up in the USA and Chile, the daughter of an American mother and a Spanish father who met after…
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Jack Underwood
B. 1984
Jack Underwood is an active presence across the British poetry landscape: as one of the first four poets as part of the Faber New Poets pamphlets scheme in 2009, as Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, tutor…