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Aphra Behn
B. 1640 D. 1689
A thousand martyrs I have made, all sacrificed to my desire. - Aphra Behn 'A Thousand Martyrs'
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Alan Jenkins
B. 1955
His poetry is what all poetry should be, the surprising and beautiful organisation of things that life has disorganised. John Fuller
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Christopher Marlowe
B. 1564 D. 1593
'Who ever loved that loved not at first sight' Christopher Marlowe, 'Hero and Leander'
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Gavin Ewart
B. 1916 D. 1995
The most remarkable phenomenon of the English poetic scene ... has been the advent, or perhaps I should say the irruption, of Gavin Ewart - Philip Larkin.
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Tanya Shirley
B. 1976
I don't want to be one of those ivory tower writers; I want to affect people's lives.
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Clare Pollard
B. 1978
This is work you can't ignore - raw, reckless and more bloody-minded than an older, so-called wiser poet would dare to be - Selima Hill
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Catherine Smith
B. 1962
Her scary, unsettling voice seems unexpected in poetry. It cuts her free of the crowd - The Times
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Marilyn Hacker
B. 1942
Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. But the fact that writers are dealing with essential issues...I think that's a necessary integration of literary writing with what's actually going on in our world. - Marilyn Hacker
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T. S. Eliot
B. 1888 D. 1965
...the communication of the dead/is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. - from Part 1 of 'Little Gidding', T. S. Eliot