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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 Lowell
B. 1917 D. 1977
If we see light at the end of the tunnel / It's the light of the oncoming train. - Robert Lowell
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William Butler Yeats
B. 1865 D. 1939
For everything that's lovely is / But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. 'Never Give All the Heart', W. B. Yeats
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Felix Dennis
B. 1947 D. 2014
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologise than it is to get permission. - Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
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Man
Read by John Fuller
Man - Henry Vaughan - Read by John Fuller
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London Snow
Read by Jacob Sam-La Rose
London Snow - Robert Bridges - Read by Jacob Sam-La Rose
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On The Death of Dr Robert Levet
Read by Daljit Nagra
On The Death of Dr Robert Levet - Samuel Johnson - Read by Daljit Nagra
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Miss Heath - Helen Mort
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Pit Closure as a Tarantino Short - Helen Mort
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Leda and the Swan
Read by Maurice Riordan
Leda and the Swan - William Butler Yeats - Read by Maurice Riordan
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Sailing to Byzantium
Read by Maurice Riordan
Sailing to Byzantium - William Butler Yeats - Read by Maurice Riordan
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Whoso list to hunt
Read by Alice Oswald
by Thomas Wyatt