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Half a Lime - Nii Ayikwei Parkes
The Mighty Dead
Ulysses
Read by Simon Russell Beale
Ulysses - Alfred Tennyson - Read by Simon Russell Beale
Poem
Explanation For Those Who Don’t Know Love - Holly Hopkins
Special Collection
Poet
Sue Hubbard
B. 1948
Sue Hubbard pays close and exact attention to the elemental world and the vulnerability of the human within it - Pascale Petit
Poet
Stephen Romer
B. 1957
'One of our finest poets of thwarted or impossible love' - Adam Thorpe, the Guardian
Poet
Esther Phillips
B. 1950
I believe that in all diverse forms of artistic expression across all countries, there are some sensitivities in common. Esther Phillips
Poet
Catherine Smith
B. 1962
Her scary, unsettling voice seems unexpected in poetry. It cuts her free of the crowd - The Times
Poem
by Sarah Howe