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The Door of No Return - Yomi Sode
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by Oje Taiye
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Jane Yeh
B. 1971
Poetry so unsettling, describing worlds so troubling and lonely, is seldom as funny, clever, and downright charming as Jane Yeh's. - Aingeal Clare
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Sitting around an old table/they drew lines across the map/dividing the place/I would call my country. Choman Hardi 'Lausanne, 1923'
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Elizabeth Bishop
B. 1911 D. 1979
All her poems have written underneath - 'I have seen it.' - Randall Jarrell
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Owen Sheers
B. 1974
Finely wrought verse that is tough, but also lyrical. A distinctive new voice - Neil Rollinson
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D. J. Enright
B. 1920 D. 2002
As a new empire swells into the full glare of the global limelight, its novelists and balladeers could very well take a good lesson from Enright: Look long and hard. Write clearly. And keep it sharp. - James Norton, Flakmag
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Anne Stevenson
B. 1933 D. 2020
She is wise without portentousness, her technique faultless and her imagination fiery, political and fresh - Carol Rumens, The Independent.