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The Door of No Return - Yomi Sode
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Jane Yeh

B. 1971

4 poems available

Jane Yeh is an American poet who has lived in England for over a decade. Born in New Jersey, she was educated at Harvard University, the University of Iowa—where she took an MFA at the prestigious writers’ program—and at Manchester…

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6 poems available

Choman Hardi is the seventh and youngest child of Kurdish poet Ahmed Hardi. After several stages of forced displacement, she was granted refugee status in England in 1993. She studied at Oxford, London, and Kent universities and her post-doctoral research…

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Elizabeth Bishop

B. 1911 D. 1979

4 poems available

Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) at the time of her death was respected as a “writer’s writer” on account of her technical mastery and exemplary patience and dedication to her craft. Since then her reputation has risen steadily until she has become…

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5 poems available

Owen Sheers (b. 1974, Fiji) was chosen as one of the Next Generation Poets and as one of the Independent’s top 30 young British writers on the strength of his first book of poetry, The Blue Book. His second, Skirrid…

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D. J. Enright

B. 1920 D. 2002

4 poems available

D. J. Enright (1920-2002) was born in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, into a family of modest means. However, the young Dennis won a place at Downing College, Cambridge where he was influenced by his controversial tutor, F R Leavis, an…

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Anne Stevenson

B. 1933 D. 2020

4 poems available

Anne Stevenson, inaugural winner of the Northern Rock Writers Award in 2002, was born in England of American parents in 1933 and educated in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where her father was professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan. After…

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John Mole

B. 1941

4 poems available

In addition to writing poetry for both children and adults, John Mole (b. 1941) is an accomplished jazz clarinettist and has been known to combine poetry and jazz with other poet-musicians such as Roy Fisher and John Lucas. He has…

The Classics

The Raven

Read by David Yezzi
The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe - Read by David Yezzi
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The Three - Laurence Lerner
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Seals at High Island - Richard Murphy
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it’s not just a conditioning shampoo it’s - Heather Phillipson
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Think of Me Sometime - James Matthews
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Told one of the goldfish wouldn’t last the night… - David Constantine
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Break, Break, Break

Read by Andrew Motion
Break, Break, Break - Alfred Tennyson - Read by Andrew Motion
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