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Sharon Olds
B. 1942
“Olds writes “poetry more faithful to the felt truth of reality than any prose could be.” – Richard Wakefield.
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Lorraine Mariner
B. 1974
'Completely original, both very funny and existentially bleak. No-one else is writing poems remotely like these'. Magma
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Vona Groarke
B. 1964
Dense yet taut poems, grounded in an everyday enriched by an intelligent, idiosyncratic awareness -- Carrie Etter
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Mark McWatt
B. 1947
Strands of autobiography, a deeply sensuous ecology of place, historical narratives; the inner world of imagination and the often difficult realities of the postcolonial nation are interwoven in McWatt's bold but carefully worked out architecture. Peepal Tree
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Cilla McQueen
B. 1949
In the face of loss - human, natural, temporal - McQueen finds salvation in language. Often her work is about artistic endeavour itself: the desire to freeze time, the realisation that this is impossible - Sarah Quigley
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Tanya Shirley
B. 1976
I don't want to be one of those ivory tower writers; I want to affect people's lives.
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Sheenagh Pugh
B. 1950
Who wants to know / a story's end, or where a road will go? - Sheenagh Pugh, 'What If This Road'
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Elizabeth Smither
B. 1941
In Smither's poems, the simplest details can be trapdoors to eternity - to 'take in life' can be a promise or a threat. - Hugh Roberts
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Sophie Hannah
B. 1971
'A poet of sassy urban heartache, deftness, humour and considerable ingenuity' - Michael Glover