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The death of children - Richard Berengarten
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The Battle of Maryville - Joelle Taylor
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ambergris - Celia A Sorhaindo
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Intimations - Momtaza Mehri
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Grey Girl - Sharon Olds
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Amaryllis Ode - Sharon Olds
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Sharon Olds
B. 1942
“Olds writes “poetry more faithful to the felt truth of reality than any prose could be.” – Richard Wakefield.
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Anna Crowe
B. 1945
There's something in me that insists it sings / Freely, for nothing, the lovely, lonely art / Called poetry, an art you understand. (from 'Venezuela' by Douglas Dunn)
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Tanya Shirley
B. 1976
I don't want to be one of those ivory tower writers; I want to affect people's lives.
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Matthew Sweeney
B. 1952 D. 2018
The act of writing is a process of curiosity and discovery, with the unconscious mind leading, and everything focussing on finding the right concrete details. Matthew Sweeney
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John Fairfax
B. 1930 D. 2009
John Fairfax's poems return us to the important sources: spells they braid linger and haunt like sweetness of a wood after rain. - Adam Thorpe
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Billy Childish
B. 1959
I am a desperate man who demands to connect...who denounces the dullness of money and status...who will not bow down to acolayed or success - 'i am the strange hero of hunger', Billy Childish