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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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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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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
B. 1886 D. 1962
A tune that one has once heard and liked [that] seems to haunt the mind and will not be dismissed until entirely mastered.
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F T Prince
B. 1912 D. 2003
F. T. Prince ranks with Auden and Spender as one of the major English poets of his generation. -- John Ashbery
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Makhosazana Xaba
B. 1957
These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts. Khosi Xaba, from 'These Hands'