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Li-Young Lee
B. 1957
His poems are made from his life with his life; his poems are earned. He dares to be simple. And he is surely among the finest young poets alive. - The American Poetry Review
Poet
Michael Longley
B. 1939
A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders - Seamus Heaney
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Margaret Atwood
B. 1939
With a lyric poem, you look, and meditate, and put the rock back. With fiction you poke things with a stick to see what will happen. - Margaret Atwood
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Vernon Scannell
B. 1922 D. 2007
The glittering dance of brilliants must be strung / On that dark thread of sadness which is time - 'Sunt Lacrimae Rerum', Vernon Scannell
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On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood - Richard Harrison
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With the Dying of the Light - Richard Harrison
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This Poem is Alive Because it is Unfinished - Richard Harrison
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by Sarah Howe