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Diptych - Victoria Adukwei Bulley
The Mighty Dead
On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer
Read by Simon Russell Beale
by John Keats
On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer - John Keats - Read by Simon Russell Beale
The Mighty Dead
Ulysses
Read by Simon Russell Beale
Ulysses - Alfred Tennyson - Read by Simon Russell Beale
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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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Ron Butlin
B. 1949
Ron Butlin is that rare breed - a poet who takes the novel form and shows it is ripe for reinvention. Playful, haunting and moving, this is writing of the highest quality. - Ian Rankin
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Tom Pow
B. 1950
Once this poem is finished, you may find me/both taking and giving breath, wherever I can.' Tom Pow,' 'The Bar at the Well of Love'
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David Wheatley
B. 1970
Wheatley's is a poetry of displacement, uncertainty and sheer possibility ... Stimulating, resourceful and often very funny - The Guardian
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M. R. Peacocke
B. 1930
Peacocke's language is shriven, precise and terribly open to the dead, to absence. -- David Morley
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Gwyneth Lewis
B. 1959
She is one of very few poets to be equally probing and technically sophisticated in both languages, intuitively sensitive to the peculiarities of each. Ruth McIlroy, Planet
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Walt Whitman
B. 1819 D. 1892
And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love. - Walt Whitman 'Dirge For Two Veterans'