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Penelope Shuttle (b. 1947) has made her home in Cornwall since 1970 and the county’s mercurial weather and rich history are continuing sources of inspiration. So too is the personal and artistic union Shuttle shared with her husband, the poet…

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Peter Dale

B. 1938

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Peter Dale (b. 1938) studied English at Oxford University where he became friends with the poets Ian Hamilton and Kevin Crossley-Holland, and William Cookson with whom Dale went on to edit the influential poetry quarterly Agenda. Dale’s first collection, Walk…

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Ciaran Carson

B. 1948 D. 2019

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Ciaran Carson (b. 1948 – d. 2019) was the author of nine books of poetry and four prose works, and the winner of several awards including the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward…

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Kathleen Raine

B. 1908 D. 2003

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Kathleen Raine (1908-2003) was the author of twelve books of poetry, four of autobiography, and much scholarly work, particularly on Blake and Yeats, which prove her transcendent understanding of the art of poetry, and the art of living. The latter…

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Tom Paulin

B. 1949

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Tom Paulin (b. 1949) is a poet, essayist, editor and lecturer, and a regular panellist on the BBC’s Newsnight Review. He won the Somerset Maugham award for his first Faber collection, A State of Justice, and was awarded a NESTA…

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Loop of Jade - Sarah Howe
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The Classics
Book 1, Canto 1 of The Faerie Queen - Edmund Spenser - Read by Andrew Motion
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The Classics

Song of Myself

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Song of Myself - Walt Whitman - Read by David Yezzi
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Guys like Gauguin - Selina Tusitala Marsh
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The Elements - Jo Shapcott
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The Bachelor Stripped Bare by his Brides, Even - David Kinloch
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From ‘Figure in a Landscape’ (5) - Anna Crowe
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Dustie-Fute - David Kinloch
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A Bed and A Chair - Simon Armitage
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Miniatures - Simon Armitage
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Love on earth - Lavinia Greenlaw
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A form of speech - Lavinia Greenlaw
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A construct - Lavinia Greenlaw
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