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Esther Phillips
B. 1950
I believe that in all diverse forms of artistic expression across all countries, there are some sensitivities in common. Esther Phillips
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Anne Bradstreet
B. 1612 D. 1672
All things within this fading world hath end. ('Before the Birth of One of Her Children')
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Sinead Morrissey
B. 1972
[Her] poems come to us with the intimacy of whispered secrets - Paul Batchelor
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Michael Laskey
B. 1944
The Laskey effect...is of suddenly sensing that more meaning is inherent in 'ordinary' moments than we were expecting. - Mark Halliday
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Sally Read
B. 1971
Poetry gives voice to what has no voice and form to what has no form, and creates the illusion of possession.
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Lorna Goodison
B. 1947
Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves. Lorna Goodison
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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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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