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Greta Stoddart
B. 1966
the irresistible clarity of images [are] so right they deliver an almost physical connection, joining poem and reader as her swifts do, 'fluid, / workmanlike, fixing rips in the sky'. ? Sarah Crown, Guardian
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Vahni Capildeo
B. 1973
Birthcries repeatedly / new, self pull out self, self / issuing that self home - Vahni Capildeo, 'On Not Writing as a West Indian Woman'
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Hilaire Belloc
B. 1870 D. 1953
When I am dead, I hope it may be said, 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.' - Hilaire Belloc
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Christmas in Andalucía - Neil Rollinson
The Mighty Dead
Beppo (extract)
Read by Fleur Adcock
by Lord Byron