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Guerilla Garden Writing Poem - Inua Ellams
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Afterword, London 2020 - Keith Jarrett
Poetry Archive Now
by Josie Walsh
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Rainforest in the Sleep Room - Pascale Petit
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Mama Amazonica - Pascale Petit
Special Collection
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by Tracey Rhys
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David Morley
B. 1964
Morley conjures a marvellous sense of nature as intimacy, something precise yet loaded and of immense importance to us. George Szirtes
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Mark McWatt
B. 1947
Strands of autobiography, a deeply sensuous ecology of place, historical narratives; the inner world of imagination and the often difficult realities of the postcolonial nation are interwoven in McWatt's bold but carefully worked out architecture. Peepal Tree
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Peter Didsbury
B. 1946
The mountaineer climbs the mountain because it's there; the poet writes poetry so that it should continue to be there.
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Cilla McQueen
B. 1949
In the face of loss - human, natural, temporal - McQueen finds salvation in language. Often her work is about artistic endeavour itself: the desire to freeze time, the realisation that this is impossible - Sarah Quigley
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Jeremy Hooker
B. 1941
I think of poetry as an art of seeing, an art by which, in my blindness, I learn to see. - Jeremy Hooker, 'At the Edge'