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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Jane Duran
B. 1944
…such moments is sometimes carried by ritual, like the face to face weeping in ‘There are Women’ or the rhythms of an old recipe in ‘Snow Pudding’. What Michael Donaghy…
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Jack Underwood
B. 1984
…to share the aims of Michael Donaghy, an influence for Underwood, who wished for his ‘work to have a life of its own and, if it works, [to be] as…