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Some Bright Elegance - Kayo Chingonyi
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The shadow well - Richard Berengarten
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Angel - Joelle Taylor
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Reverberation - Will Burns
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Ghana by Air - Nii Ayikwei Parkes
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Rainforest in the Sleep Room - Pascale Petit
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by Ella Duffy
Echo - Ella Duffy
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"Effortlessly switching from spoken-word poetry and folk lyrics accompanied by a gentle finger-picked guitar style, her pieces evoke the beauty and melancholy of the natural world and our place within it." - Ewan Carr, Norfolk Wildlife Trust
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Jay Bernard
B. 1988
"One of our most promising young talents, Jay Bernard writes powerful and sensuous scenes from the metropolis: a teenager flies like a moth, a woman with scissors sings bees. Disturbing, joyous and always surprising.” – Pascale Petit.
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Catherine Byron
B. 1947
Catherine Byron's poems write themselves where they ought: on the inside of your skin. Hilary Mantel
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Gerard Benson
B. 1931 D. 2014
Gerard Benson's poetry transfigures the ordinary and leaves an aftertaste of mystery in the mind.Michael Glover, The Independent