Explore Poetry
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by Laura Potts
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by Celia A Sorhaindo
The Mighty Dead
Oh Mistress Mine
Read by Jude Law
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Kae Tempest
B. 1985
"Tempest has forged their own voice, unlike anything else in the mainstream poetry world." - The Independent
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Alasdair Gray
B. 1934 D. 2019
Work as if you live in the early days of a better world -- Alasdair Gray via Dennis Lee
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Connie Bensley
B. 1929
She has the comic's knack of placing a lot of weight on thin-shouldered words, words blurred by common currency which are suddenly brought into sharp focus and don't really want to be. Beyond the laughs there's great poignancy - Observer
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Melissa Lee-Houghton
B. 1982
Beautiful Girls is not a book for the faint-hearted: it will survive as testament to poetry's force in overcoming - Chris McCabe
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. 1772 D. 1874
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge