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I don't want to write poems that aren't necessary. - Maxine Kumin

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C. K. Williams

B. 1939 D. 2015

3 poems available

C. K. Williams is a wonderful poet, in the authentic American tradition of Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams, who tells us on every page what it means to be alive in our time. - Stanley Kunitz

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Sylvia Plath

B. 1932 D. 1963

2 poems available

The blood jet is poetry,/ There is no stopping it. - 'Kindness', Sylvia Plath (written 1st February 1963)

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Edwin Brock

B. 1927 D. 1997

2 poems available

The kind of poetry that excites me is the kind that comes closest to direct communication, the kind of communication that one can sometimes feel without words in a look or a gesture. - Edwin Brock

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13 poems available

A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders - Seamus Heaney

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Elizabeth Bartlett

B. 1924 D. 2008

4 poems available

Hers is a daybook of a night-nurse of the soul - John Mole, 'Encounter'

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Wedding in Stobo Kirk - Valerie Gillies
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Old Moments - Alasdair Gray
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Winter Housekeeping, 1990 - Alasdair Gray
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A Farewell Letter - Laurence Lerner
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Complaint for Absolute Divorce - Mary Jo Salter
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Bed of Letters - Mary Jo Salter
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