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'To write a poem as a working-class woman is an act of courage, of resistance. To perform it is a revolution' – Joelle Tayor

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5 poems available

I'm interested in the power mechanisms, personal and political and sometimes a combination of the two, that prevent people from speaking. Esther Morgan

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Elizabeth Bishop

B. 1911 D. 1979

4 poems available

All her poems have written underneath - 'I have seen it.' - Randall Jarrell

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Robert Lowell

B. 1917 D. 1977

2 poems available

If we see light at the end of the tunnel / It's the light of the oncoming train. - Robert Lowell

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Louis MacNeice

B. 1907 D. 1963

2 poems available

The writer today should be not so much the mouthpiece of a community...as its conscience, its critical faculty, its generous instinct. - Louis MacNeice

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My Wives - Neil Rollinson
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The Full Indian Rope Trick - Colette Bryce
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Christmas Seven Times Seven - Glyn Maxwell
The Mighty Dead

Dover Beach

Read by Alan Brownjohn
Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold - Read by Alan Brownjohn
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Locals - James Lasdun
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Sunday Ritual - Tanya Shirley
The Mighty Dead
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (extracts) - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Read by Kit Wright
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