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Badly Chosen Lover - Rosemary Tonks
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Rosemary Tonks (born in 1928) was an English poet and author. After publishing two poetry collections, multiple novels and prose pieces, she disappeared from the public eye after a lengthy illness. Tonks worked for the BBC, writing stories and reviewing…

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The Night of the Scorpion - Nissim Ezekiel
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Nissim Ezekiel

B. 1924 D. 2004

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Born in Mumbai (Bombay), Ezekiel has been described as ‘the father of post-independence Indian poetry in English’. His heritage is Indian Jewish. He received a BA in Literature from Wilson College, Bombay University in 1947 and studied philosophy at Birkbeck…

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Robert Creeley

B. 1926 D. 2005

  Born in Arlington, Massachusetts in 1926, Creely was educated at Holderness School, Plymouth and Harvard University. Creeley’s father died in 1930 and he was raised by his mother and sister. He was left blind in one eye following a…

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The Combat - Edwin Muir
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Henley on Thames - John Betjeman
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Mother Tongue - Gwyneth Lewis
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Jhoota Kunda Ballads: The Ghosts of Cranford Park! - Daljit Nagra
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The Hunt - Don Paterson
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How we became the pirates - Kei Miller
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Warming Her Pearls - Carol Ann Duffy
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The Sightseers - Paul Muldoon
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The Fat Black Woman Goes Shopping - Grace Nichols
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Men and their Boring Arguments - Wendy Cope
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Jacko’s Girl - Selima Hill
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At North Farm - John Ashbery
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