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“Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.” – Thomas Hardy
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Valerie Gillies
B. 1948
Valerie Gillies writes like the wind and jinks like a hare in the fields of language - The Scotsman
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John Glenday
B. 1952
A haunting music full of subtlety of thought and religious echoes. -- Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian
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Richard Murphy
B. 1927 D. 2018
He has the gift of epic objectivity: behind his poems we feel not the assertion of his personality, but the actuality of events, the facts and sufferings of history. -- Ted Hughes
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Stewart Conn
B. 1936
He stands among the indispensable poets of modern and contemporary Scotland ? Douglas Dunn
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Sandeep Parmar
B. 1979
"This is sanity speaking, with a mask of tragedy pulled up from its face. This is a stunning poet arguing with the failing authority of her culture, the whole Silk Road curled up and hissing by her feet." Valzhyna Mort
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Lee Harwood
B. 1939 D. 2015
Lee Harwood is one of Britain's best poets and best kept secrets. -- John Ashbery
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Geoffrey Lehmann
B. 1940
Poetry is our human love of metaphor. We see one thing and think something else - 'Travels in Peru', Geoffrey Lehmann