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Sharon Olds
B. 1942
“Olds writes “poetry more faithful to the felt truth of reality than any prose could be.” – Richard Wakefield.
Interview
Choman Hardi answers questions on her Kurdish background and the influence this has on her poetry and painting.
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Sarah Howe
B. 1983
Rich and fierce, Sarah Howe's poems are alive to the complex stories and voices that cohere around objects, family and place. . . surprising and moving. . . - EDMUND DE WAAL
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D. H. Lawrence
B. 1885 D. 1930
Not every man has gentians in his house in Soft September, at slow, Sad Michaelmas. - D.H. Lawrence 'Bavarian Gentians'
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Amy Levy
B. 1861 D. 1889
Dear Friend, you must not deem me light if, as I lie and muse to-night, I give a smile and not a sigh to thoughts of our Philosophy. - Amy Levy, 'Philosophy'
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Mark McWatt
B. 1947
Strands of autobiography, a deeply sensuous ecology of place, historical narratives; the inner world of imagination and the often difficult realities of the postcolonial nation are interwoven in McWatt's bold but carefully worked out architecture. Peepal Tree
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Diana Bridge
B. 1942
All this was water / in the beginning. Between / us are our legends - 'Chrysanthemum', Diana Bridge
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
B. 1844 D. 1889
“A great work by an Englishman is like a great battle won by England. It is an unfading bay tree.”
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Robert Pinsky
B. 1940
Robert Pinsky has what I think Shakespeare must have had: dexterity combined with worldliness, the magician's dazzling quickness fused with subtle intelligence... - Louise Gluck
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Theodore Roethke
B. 1908 D. 1963
In a dark time the eye begins to see - 'In a Dark Time', Theodore Roethke
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Don Paterson
B. 1963
I would say that the poem exists in a space somewhere between the reader and the author, and in a sense belongs to neither, and both. - Don Paterson