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Repeat Until Time - Hannah Sullivan
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by Dami Ajayi
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A Gimbal of Blackness - Nii Ayikwei Parkes
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Matthew Arnold
B. 1822 D. 1888
I might have known, / What far too soon, alas! I learn'd / The heart can bind itself alone, / And faith may oft be unreturn'd.' Matthew Arnold, 'Isolation: To Marguerite'
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Sally Read
B. 1971
Poetry gives voice to what has no voice and form to what has no form, and creates the illusion of possession.
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Elizabeth Bishop
B. 1911 D. 1979
All her poems have written underneath - 'I have seen it.' - Randall Jarrell
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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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Margaret Atwood
B. 1939
With a lyric poem, you look, and meditate, and put the rock back. With fiction you poke things with a stick to see what will happen. - Margaret Atwood
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Aspens
Read by Helen Thomas
Aspens - Edward Thomas - Read by Helen Thomas
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by Tara Bergin