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by Aidan Casey
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Rainforest in the Sleep Room - Pascale Petit
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by Tracey Rhys
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David Wheatley
B. 1970
Wheatley's is a poetry of displacement, uncertainty and sheer possibility ... Stimulating, resourceful and often very funny - The Guardian
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Gwyneth Lewis
B. 1959
She is one of very few poets to be equally probing and technically sophisticated in both languages, intuitively sensitive to the peculiarities of each. Ruth McIlroy, Planet
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Thomas Hardy
B. 1840 D. 1928
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Thomas Hardy
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Alice Oswald
B. 1966
Alice Oswald throws the windows of the imagination open; she places a fingertip on the pulse of tradition, and proves it is still very much alive - The Times
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Austin Clarke
B. 1896 D. 1974
Burn Ovid with the rest. Lovers will find/ A hedge-school for themselves and learn by heart/ All that the clergy banish from the mind,/ When hands are joined and head bows in the dark. - 'Penal Law' by Austin Clarke
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Robert Minhinnick
B. 1952
Robert Minhinnick is the leading Welsh poet of his generation. - The Sunday Times
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Elizabeth Jennings
B. 1926 D. 2001
You cannot fake anything if you are trying to write serious poetry. - Elizabeth Jennings