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Repeat Until Time - Hannah Sullivan
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A Gimbal of Blackness - Nii Ayikwei Parkes
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Matthew Arnold

B. 1822 D. 1888

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Matthew Arnold was born in 1822, the son of the celebrated headmaster of Rugby, Thomas Arnold. Matthew attended Balliol College, Oxford and was a close friend of an older fellow Rugbeian, the poet Arthur Hugh Clough. In 1847 Arnold met and…

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Emily Bronte

B. 1818 D. 1848

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Emily Bronte was born in 1818, the daughter of Irishman Patrick Bronte, perpetual curate of Haworth, Yorkshire. Emily’s mother died in 1821, leaving five daughters and a son to the care of their aunt. Four of the daughters were sent…

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Sally Read

B. 1971

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Winner of an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2001, Sally Read is one of a new generation of younger poets shaping the future of British poetry. Her work is notable for its coupling of a sensitive,…

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Elizabeth Bishop

B. 1911 D. 1979

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Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) at the time of her death was respected as a “writer’s writer” on account of her technical mastery and exemplary patience and dedication to her craft. Since then her reputation has risen steadily until she has become…

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Michael Rosen (b. 1946) says he became a children’s poet by accident – “I thought I was being an ironic adult poet but children’s literature ‘claimed’ me”. He has since become a very well-known poet, for adults as well as…

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Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) is familiar to readers all over the world as the author of some of the finest and most influential fiction of the last few decades. Titles like The Handmaid’s Tale, Alias Grace, and The Robber Bride…

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Aspens

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Aspens - Edward Thomas - Read by Helen Thomas
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The Golden Wall - Geoffrey Lehmann
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Collects for Lent - Stephen Romer
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Once Troublesome - Claire Crowther
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Solitude - Caroline Caddy
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