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Ted Hughes
B. 1930 D. 1998
Poetry is the voice of spirit and imagination and all that is potential, as well as of the healing benevolence that used to be the privilege of the gods. - Ted Hughes
Poet
Kathleen Jamie
B. 1962
...if poetry is a method of approaching truths, and each of us with a human soul and 'a tongue in oor heids' can make an approach toward a truth, poetry is inherently democratic. - Kathleen Jamie
Poem
Winter Housekeeping, 1990 - Alasdair Gray
Poem
The Shrew - Kathleen Jamie
Poem
The Dipper - Kathleen Jamie
Poem
A Winter Elegy - Alan Brownjohn
The Mighty Dead
There’s a certain Slant of light
Read by Kei Miller
There’s a certain Slant of light - Emily Dickinson - Read by Kei Miller
Poem
Picardy - Stephen Romer
Poem
The Snow Village - Glyn Maxwell
Poem
On a Devon Road - Glyn Maxwell
The Mighty Dead
The Darkling Thrush
Read by Lawrence Sail
by Thomas Hardy