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Weary with Toil (Sonnet 27) - William Shakespeare - Read by Rosamund Pike
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Derek Walcott

B. 1930 D. 2017

2 poems available

“What's poetry, if it's worth its salt, / but a phrase men can pass from hand to mouth?”

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4 poems available

Tough, explicit and wickedly clever - Alan Brownjohn

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5 poems available

Strands of autobiography, a deeply sensuous ecology of place, historical narratives; the inner world of imagination and the often difficult realities of the postcolonial nation are interwoven in McWatt's bold but carefully worked out architecture. Peepal Tree

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4 poems available

Poetry is the most elemental of the written arts.

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Robert Frost

B. 1874 D. 1963

1 poem available

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost

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3 poems available

Fuller is a wonderfully skilled craftsman and the grace and elegance of his style is at the service of not only a sharp wit and intelligence, but a great depth of feeling. - Sunday Telegraph

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Gerald Stern

B. 1925 D. 2022

4 poems available

I suppose as I'm explaining myself to others, I'm quintessentially explaining myself to myself. Gerald Stern

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10 poems available

My poems are the product of a relationship between a side of my mind which is conscious, alert, educated and manipulative, and a side which is as murky as a primaeval swamp. - Andrew Motion

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Absolute September - Mary Jo Salter
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There’s a certain Slant of light - Emily Dickinson - Read by Kei Miller
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A Receipt to Cure the Vapours - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Read by Denise Riley
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