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Promises like Pie-Crust
Read by Helen Dunmore
Promises like Pie-Crust - Christina Rossetti - Read by Helen Dunmore
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Proud Maisie
Read by Don Paterson
by Walter Scott
Proud Maisie - Walter Scott - Read by Don Paterson
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Punch’s Day-Book – an extract - David Harsent
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Questions That Must Be Answered - Kevin Ireland
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R-and-R Centre: An Incident from the Vietnam War - D. J. Enright
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R. S. Thomas
B. 1913 D. 2000
R. S. Thomas (1913-2000) teemed with contradictions: a passionate advocate of Welsh nationalism he wrote in English and sent his son to boarding school in England; an undemonstrative man he composed the most tender elegies for his wife; a man…
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Rabindranath Tagore, known as the Bard of Bengal, was born in 1861 to an aristocratic family of social reformers in Calcutta (now Kolkata), then the seat of the British government in India. His prolific output spanned poetry, plays, songs, novels,…
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Race Riot, Tulsa, 1921 - Sharon Olds
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Rachael Boast
B. 1975
Born in Suffolk, Rachael Boast studied English and Philosophy at Wolverhampton University, after which she relocated to Bristol. In 2005 she moved to St Andrews to begin an MLit in Creative Writing. Her PhD was an examination of poetic technique…
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Rachel Long
B. 1988
Rachel Long is the founder of Octavia Poetry Collective for Womxn of Colour, a ‘fiercely community-minded’ collective formed in direct response to the lack of inclusivity and representation in literature and the academy.