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The Mighty Dead
Is it thy will thy image should keep open (Sonnet 61)
Read by Simon Callow
The Mighty Dead
Ulysses
Read by Simon Russell Beale
The Mighty Dead
Weary with Toil (Sonnet 27)
Read by Rosamund Pike
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W. H. Davies
B. 1871 D. 1940
And I could see that child's one eye which seemed to laugh, and say with glee: 'what caused my death you'll never know, perhaps my mother murdered me.' - W.H. Davies - 'The Inquest'
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Olive Senior
B. 1941
Poetry matters because it is a tool for helping us to discover who we are. As individuals, as Caribbean peoples, as citizens of the world. Olive Senior
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Lorna Goodison
B. 1947
Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves. Lorna Goodison
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Gwendolyn Brooks
B. 1917 D. 2000
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black. . . Gwendolyn Brooks