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A Pang - Lachlan Mackinnon
The Mighty Dead
The First Day
Read by Judi Dench
The First Day - Christina Rossetti - Read by Judi Dench
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Kae Tempest
B. 1985
"Tempest has forged their own voice, unlike anything else in the mainstream poetry world." - The Independent
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Robert Frost
B. 1874 D. 1963
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
Poet
James Fenton
B. 1949
If there is a unifying principle in his later work, it is expressed in a combination of plainness of utterance with a strong sense of poetry as a public and political art. - Sean O'Brien