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James Fenton
B. 1949
James Fenton (b. 1949) grew up in Lincolnshire and Staffordshire and was educated at Repton and Magdalen College, Oxford where he won the prestigious Newdigate Prize for his sonnet sequence ‘Our Western Furniture’. This early poem about the cultural collision…
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1 Stone cries to stone, Heart to heart, heart to stone, And the interrogation will not die For there is no eternal city And there is no pity And there is nothing underneath the sky No rainbow and no…
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This is the wind, the wind in a field of corn. Great crowds are fleeing from a major disaster Down the long valleys, the green swaying wadis, Down through the beautiful catastrophe of wind. Families, tribes, nations and their livestock…
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Listen to what they did. Don’t listen to what they said. What was written in blood Has been set up in lead. Lead tears the heart. Lead tears the brain. What was written in blood Has been set up again….
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Don’t talk to me of love. I’ve had an earful And I get tearful when I’ve downed a drink or two. I’m one of your talking wounded. I’m a hostage. I’m maroonded. But I’m in Paris with you. Yes I’m…
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Nights of 1964-1966: The Old Reliable - Marilyn Hacker
for Lewis Ellingham The laughing soldiers fought to their defeat… James Fenton, ‘In a Notebook’ White decorators interested in Art, Black file clerks with theatrical ambitions, kids making pharmaceutical revisions in journals Comp. instructors urged they start, the part-Cherokee…
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Edward Thomas
B. 1878 D. 1917
Edward Thomas wrote all his poetry in less than three years, between 1914, when he wrote his first, and 1917, when he was killed in the Battle of Arras. Most of his poems were published posthumously; they show sensitive observation…
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Jonathan Edwards
B. 1979
Jonathan Edwards was born in Newport, South Wales and grew up in Crosskeys. He received a BA in English and American Literature and an MA in Writing from the University of Warwick, and now teaches English at a secondary school…
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Jim Carruth
B. 1963
Jim Carruth was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, in 1963. He grew up on his family’s far near Kilbarchan, and studied for a degree in Geology at Glasgow University. After spending time in Turkey, he returned to Scotland, where he now…