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Guerilla Garden Writing Poem  - Inua Ellams
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These fine poems, written at different times and from a variety of perspectives, all look hard at the landscapes they enshrine. In doing so, they achieve (at least) two things at the same time. They honour the facts they preserve;…

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U A Fanthorpe

B. 1929 D. 2009

3 poems available

The really basic thing as far as I'm concerned is the pens. I have three pens; I keep them in my left hand pocket, and they're always there because if I haven't got a pen I'm really lost... - U. A. Fanthorpe

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Kathleen Raine

B. 1908 D. 2003

4 poems available

Young or old / What was I but the story told / By an unageing one? (Kathleen Raine, from 'Ah, many, many are the dead...')

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I hope to write poetry that uses the full keyboard, claiming its full range of method and subject. - Sean O'Brien

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Love in a cold climate - Christine De Luca
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The Herb-garden - C. H. Sisson
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Cherry Tree, at Dusk - Stewart Conn
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Carpe Diem - Stewart Conn
The Mighty Dead

A Forsaken Garden

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A Forsaken Garden - Algernon Swinburne - Read by Patience Agbabi
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Blueberries - James Lasdun
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Inhuman Triumphs - Vahni Capildeo
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