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A Portable Paradise - Roger Robinson
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Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong - Ocean Vuong
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"Tempest has forged their own voice, unlike anything else in the mainstream poetry world." - The Independent

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Alasdair Gray

B. 1934 D. 2019

9 poems available

Work as if you live in the early days of a better world -- Alasdair Gray via Dennis Lee

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She has the comic's knack of placing a lot of weight on thin-shouldered words, words blurred by common currency which are suddenly brought into sharp focus and don't really want to be. Beyond the laughs there's great poignancy - Observer

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Henry Vaughan

B. 1621 D. 1695

2 poems available

Dear beauteous Death! the jewel of the just...

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pared-down precision and scorching intensity - Helen Dunmore

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Beautiful Girls is not a book for the faint-hearted: it will survive as testament to poetry's force in overcoming - Chris McCabe

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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket: let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Dorothea Smartt reveals a poetic intelligence and maturity of form and content which definitely locates her among the best of her generation of poets. - Carol Boyce Davies

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Each sharp star speaks of something long gone - 'Cactus', Siobhan Harvey

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For it to exist in the real world, my work has to be bigger than myself.

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