Explore Poetry
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Catherine Byron
B. 1947
Catherine Byron's poems write themselves where they ought: on the inside of your skin. Hilary Mantel
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Colette Bryce
B. 1970
Bryce's phrasing is precise, her word-play sensuous, smart and snappy. The Guardian.
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Nigel McLoughlin
B. 1968
The composition stage of the poem is not finished until I am satisfied with how the poem works in the mouth and in the ear as well as in relation to its imagery and its meaning.
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Sinead Morrissey
B. 1972
[Her] poems come to us with the intimacy of whispered secrets - Paul Batchelor
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Leontia Flynn
B. 1974
The furthest distances I've travelled/ have been those between people. Leontia Flynn
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Tom Paulin
B. 1949
not a thing no one will stop me I've got to go / down to the wild sea - 'Sea Wind', Tom Paulin