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The shadow well - Richard Berengarten
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In Memory of Herbert Morris - Malika Booker
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Nick Makoha
B. 1974
“The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself” – Derek Walcott
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Aubade with Burning City - Ocean Vuong
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Race Riot, Tulsa, 1921 - Sharon Olds
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F T Prince
B. 1912 D. 2003
F. T. Prince ranks with Auden and Spender as one of the major English poets of his generation. -- John Ashbery
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J.O. Morgan
B. 1978
'Inventive, striking and memorable, Morgan is one of the most original poets around.' Andrew Motion, Guardian Books of the Year
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Ivor Gurney
B. 1890 D. 1937
There are strange Hells within the minds War made. - Ivor Gurney, 'Strange Hells'
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Gerard Benson
B. 1931 D. 2014
Gerard Benson's poetry transfigures the ordinary and leaves an aftertaste of mystery in the mind.Michael Glover, The Independent