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by Dami Ajayi
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Stephen Lightbown – 10 poems from ‘The Last Custodian’ - Stephen Lightbown
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Some Bright Elegance - Kayo Chingonyi
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Fluke by Any Other Name Is a Flight Number - Momtaza Mehri
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Rock, Paper, Scissors - Richard Osmond
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Aubade with Burning City - Ocean Vuong
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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
B. 1886 D. 1962
A tune that one has once heard and liked [that] seems to haunt the mind and will not be dismissed until entirely mastered.
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Connie Bensley
B. 1929
She has the comic's knack of placing a lot of weight on thin-shouldered words, words blurred by common currency which are suddenly brought into sharp focus and don't really want to be. Beyond the laughs there's great poignancy - Observer
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W. H. Davies
B. 1871 D. 1940
And I could see that child's one eye which seemed to laugh, and say with glee: 'what caused my death you'll never know, perhaps my mother murdered me.' - W.H. Davies - 'The Inquest'
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Christopher Reid
B. 1949
Reid is a poet who lives on in the mind, becomes part of one's inner vocabulary. In every poetic generation that are not more than one or two like that. - The Poetry Review
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Andrew Marvell
B. 1621 D. 1678
Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, lady, were no crime. Andrew Marvell, 'To His Coy Mistress'