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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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Sarah Maguire
B. 1957 D. 2017
At once catalogues of ordinary, precise vision...and poems of musical and metaphysical ambition, Maguire is the heiress of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Adam Phillips, The Observer
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Jo Shapcott
B. 1953
But the exact place where the self and the other touch, where there's the possibility of either transformation or stasis...that's the place that interests me most. - Jo Shapcott
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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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Michael Longley
B. 1939
A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders - Seamus Heaney
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Michael Rosen
B. 1946
What happens with me is quite often I start with a memory, mix it with observations of people I know and then mix in a bit of 'What if...?' - Michael Rosen
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Jenny Joseph
B. 1932 D. 2018
Why are we frightened of the word for love? - 'Language teaching: naming', Jenny Joseph
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Kathleen Raine
B. 1908 D. 2003
Young or old / What was I but the story told / By an unageing one? (Kathleen Raine, from 'Ah, many, many are the dead...')
The Mighty Dead
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Read by David Yezzi
by Walt Whitman