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Mick Imlah
B. 1956 D. 2009
A poet of striking originality and cunning, a genuinely distinctive voice in the murmur and babble of the contemporary - Neil Corcoran
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Jen Hadfield
B. 1978
I go to the rockpool at the slack of tide/ to mind me what my poetry's for. - Jen Hadfield from 'Daed-traa'.
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Bill Manhire
B. 1946
I suppose what I really like is to set up a system which looks wonderfully secure when you first encounter it on the page, but within the framework there are crazy things which tip the reader off-balance. - Bill Manhire
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Robert Minhinnick
B. 1952
Robert Minhinnick is the leading Welsh poet of his generation. - The Sunday Times
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David Harsent
B. 1942
Harsent has an unusual claim to notice: you begin every poem with the certain prospect of pleasure and surprise. - Martin Amis, Observer
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Mimi Khalvati
B. 1944
Come close the flower says and we come close, / close enough to lift, cup and smell the rose - 'Come Close', Mimi Khalvati
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Penelope Shuttle
B. 1947
In my poetry I give primacy to the breath. For me it is the way the poem breathes that gives it form. - Penelope Shuttle
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Peter Dale
B. 1938
The poet shouldn't draw attention to his stylistic self; the poem should be a lens through which something crucial is seen. - Peter Dale
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Ciaran Carson
B. 1948 D. 2019
What is / My name? Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks. - 'Belfast Confetti', Ciaran Carson
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Kathleen Raine
B. 1908 D. 2003
Young or old / What was I but the story told / By an unageing one? (Kathleen Raine, from 'Ah, many, many are the dead...')
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Tom Paulin
B. 1949
not a thing no one will stop me I've got to go / down to the wild sea - 'Sea Wind', Tom Paulin