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Dear Dad - Seni Seneviratne
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When Landscape Becomes Woman - Arundhati Subramaniam
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The Beginning - Rabindranath Tagore
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Mapping Memories - Amarjit Chandan
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Prayer - Arundhati Subramaniam
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Coolie Odyssey - David Dabydeen
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The Four Corners of the Circle - Paul Groves
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Wing - Karen McCarthy Woolf
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Creation - Celia A Sorhaindo
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The Child God of Chaos - Inua Ellams
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Ode to the Hymen - Sharon Olds
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Rebecca Goss has described poetry as ‘an invitation to look very closely at something’, and her refined, spare style certainly supports this idea; as Val McDermid has written, ‘[her] language is precise and evocative, the images sharp as a photograph’….

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Charlotte Smith

B. 1749 D. 1806

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Charlotte Turner was born in 1749 into the landed gentry. Her father owned two prosperous estates, Stoke Place in Surrey and Bignor Park in Sussex, but gambling losses destroyed his fortune; aged fifteen Charlotte was married off to the wealthy but…

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Anne Bradstreet

B. 1612 D. 1672

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Anne Bradstreet was born in 1612 in England. In 1630 she emigrated to Massachusetts, with her father Thomas Dudley and her husband Simon Bradstreet. They sailed as members of the expedition led by John Winthrop, eventually the first governor of…

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in 1772, the tenth and youngest child of the schoolmaster of the country town of Ottery St Mary. After the death of his father he attended Christ’s Hospital School: ‘I was reared / In the…

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