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When Landscape Becomes Woman - Arundhati Subramaniam
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by Chidozie Emesowum
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The Four Corners of the Circle - Paul Groves
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The Child God of Chaos - Inua Ellams
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Rebecca Goss
B. 1974
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
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
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
B. 1772 D. 1874
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…