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Advice for Lonely Hearts - Paul Groves
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Nine Nights - Malika Booker
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Malika Booker
B. 1970
“She is a black statue in a whitewashed wooden chair, a dilapidated board house, sitting still till dusk spreads her silk petticoat across the sagging sky and bats swarm into the evening’s canvas.”
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Momtaza Mehri
B. 1994
"I digress. Let’s live in digression. We have no other choices.", from the poem Haematology #1
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Victoria Adukwei Bulley
B. 1991
“I myself am bored / of fig leaves, of shames / I did not choose” – from ‘About Ana’
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Yomi Sode
B. 1984
“To archive poems that may speak to current or younger generations of writers feels incredible. I’m thankful to join a list of iconic figures who inspire me to craft my work to the best it can be.”
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by Tiffany Anne Tondut
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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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Steve Ellis
B. 1952
To soothe you / I ran back down to take a photo: / it's a splendid one of the horse / but you're only a hurrahing speck
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Laurence Lerner
B. 1925 D. 2016
His poems are meant for everyone ... A genuinely popular poet, who deserves to be better known. - Peter Porter
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Mary Jo Salter
B. 1954
'this spiral / of making while unmaking while / the world goes round' -- Mary Jo Salter, 'Young Girl Peeling Apples'