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Brain Drain
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These fine poems, written at different times and from a variety of perspectives, all look hard at the landscapes they enshrine. In doing so, they achieve (at least) two things at the same time. They honour the facts they preserve;…

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John Montague

B. 1929 D. 2016

5 poems available

some pure thing, / Some living source, half-imagined and half-real, / Pulses in the fictive water that I feel. - John Montague, 'The Water Carrier'

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13 poems available

A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders - Seamus Heaney

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19 poems available

...if poetry is a method of approaching truths, and each of us with a human soul and 'a tongue in oor heids' can make an approach toward a truth, poetry is inherently democratic. - Kathleen Jamie

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The Elements - Jo Shapcott
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What’s in a name? - Christine De Luca
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The Dipper - Kathleen Jamie
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from Fresh Water – Port Meadow – Dragonflies - David Morley
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Over My Toes - Michael Rosen
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Love in Another Language - Dick Davis
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Fifty Years - Michael Longley
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