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The Battle of Maryville - Joelle Taylor
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Nine Nights - Malika Booker
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Malika Booker
B. 1970
“She is a black statue in a whitewashed wooden chair, a dilapidated board house, sitting still till dusk spreads her silk petticoat across the sagging sky and bats swarm into the evening’s canvas.”
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by Carmina Masoliver
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by Genevieve Carver
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Derek Walcott
B. 1930 D. 2017
“What's poetry, if it's worth its salt, / but a phrase men can pass from hand to mouth?”
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"The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could reasonably have expected to go." - Seamus Heaney
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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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Edgar Allan Poe
B. 1809 D. 1849
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
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Tracey Herd
B. 1968
Never stop looking at the world. Or wondering at it. You will never run out of words.
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Anthony Howell
B. 1945
a talent for avoiding the predictable and deconstructing the recognisable - Stride