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Joelle Taylor
B. 1967
'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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Esther Morgan
B. 1970
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
All her poems have written underneath - 'I have seen it.' - Randall Jarrell
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Robert Lowell
B. 1917 D. 1977
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
The writer today should be not so much the mouthpiece of a community...as its conscience, its critical faculty, its generous instinct. - Louis MacNeice