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Ted Hughes
B. 1930 D. 1998
Poetry is the voice of spirit and imagination and all that is potential, as well as of the healing benevolence that used to be the privilege of the gods. - Ted Hughes
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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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Michael Longley
B. 1939
A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders - Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney
B. 1939 D. 2013
And here is love / like a tinsmith's scoop / sunk past its gleam / in the meal-bin - 'Mossbawn Sunlight', Seamus Heaney
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Ian Duhig
B. 1954
I do mock literature and take it seriously at the same time, but anyone who is passionately attached to a football team will have similar mixed feelings - Ian Duhig
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Michael Rosen
B. 1946
What happens with me is quite often I start with a memory, mix it with observations of people I know and then mix in a bit of 'What if...?' - Michael Rosen
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Wild nights – Wild nights!
Read by Mary Jo Salter
The Mighty Dead
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Read by Andrew Motion