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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
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Explanation For Those Who Don’t Know Love - Holly Hopkins
Special Collection

It’s always great to receive flowers but we thought we would do something extra special and send you a lovely Bunch of Poems!

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Sue Hubbard pays close and exact attention to the elemental world and the vulnerability of the human within it - Pascale Petit

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'One of our finest poets of thwarted or impossible love' - Adam Thorpe, the Guardian

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I believe that in all diverse forms of artistic expression across all countries, there are some sensitivities in common. Esther Phillips

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Her scary, unsettling voice seems unexpected in poetry. It cuts her free of the crowd - The Times

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Tame - Sarah Howe
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White horse - Steve Ellis
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Scenes From Childhood, part 1 - Steve Ellis
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Innisfree - Anthony Howell
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