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Until the fabric speaks & the textile is a text - Victoria Adukwei Bulley
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Keith Jarrett
B. 1984
“..and only they, children, excellent students of their own self worth, do know the value of their lives - from 'Outside St Dominic's Priory. Snapshot, July 2015'”
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Rachel Long
B. 1988
“The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. -Toni Morrison ”
Poetry Archive Now
by Akpa Arinzechukwu
Poetry Archive Now
by James McDermott
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by Maggie Mackay
Poetry Archive Now
by Merrie Joy Williams
The Mighty Dead
God’s Grandeur
Read by Simon Russell Beale
God’s Grandeur - Gerard Manley Hopkins - Read by Simon Russell Beale
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A Portable Paradise - Roger Robinson
Poet
Sharon Olds
B. 1942
“Olds writes “poetry more faithful to the felt truth of reality than any prose could be.” – Richard Wakefield.
Poet
Phyllis Wheatley
B. 1753 D. 1784
Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain/ May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train.- Phillis Wheatley
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Clive Wilmer
B. 1945
What thou lovest well remains, / the rest is dross / What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee / What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage -- Ezra Pound, Canto LXXXI