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Vincent O’Sullivan

B. 1937 D. 2024

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Vincent O’Sullivan (b.1937, Auckland, New Zealand, d.2024) lectured at Victoria University, Wellington (1963-1966) and Waikato University, Hamilton (1968-1978). In the following years he was the literary editor of the New Zealand Listener (1979-1980) and Writer in Residence (1981-1987) at several…

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Norman Nicholson

B. 1914 D. 1987

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Norman Nicholson (1914-1987) and his poetry are inextricably bound up with the former iron-mining town of Millom, on the edge of the Lake District in Cumbria. Apart from several years spent in a TB sanatorium as a teenager, Nicholson never…

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Robert Lowell

B. 1917 D. 1977

2 poems available

Robert Lowell (1917-1977) packed a huge amount into his sixty years: a rollercoaster of triumphs and disasters that informed his writing and pushed back the boundaries of what was deemed suitable subject matter for poetry. He was born into an…

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Sebastian Barker

B. 1945 D. 2014

5 poems available

Sebastian Barker (1945–2014) was the author of many books of poetry and editor of The London Magazine. An ex-chairman of the Poetry Society, he was a director of several literary festivals, including the Royal Berkshire Poetry Festival, and held various…

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Michael Symmons Roberts (b. 1963) is the author of four collections of poetry, and won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry for his most recent book, Corpus. Roberts is a lyric poet with philosophical and metaphysical concerns. These are strongly evident…

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Galway Kinnell

B. 1927 D. 2014

Galway Kinnell (1927 – 2014) grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island and was educated at Princeton and Rochester University. He joined in the radical political movements of the 1960s, working for the Congress on Racial Equality and protesting against the…

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Patricia Beer

B. 1924 D. 1999

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Patricia Beer (1924-1999) was born in Exmouth, Devon, into a Plymouth Brethren family, a childhood she recalls vividly in her autobiography Mrs Beer’s House. Educated at Exmouth Grammar School, Exeter University and Oxford, she lived in Italy lecturing in English…

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Charles Causley

B. 1917 D. 2003

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Charles Causley (1917-2003) was born and brought up in Launceston, Cornwall and lived there for most of his life. When he was only seven his father died from wounds sustained during the First World War. This early loss and his…

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PJ Kavanagh

B. 1931 D. 2015

5 poems available

P J Kavanagh (1931 – 2015) was the author of eight books of poems, an essayist and travel-writer, a novelist, and editor of the poems of Ivor Gurney; he received the Cholmondely Award for Poetry, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and…

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The Iron Age Boat at Caumatruish - Bernard O’Donoghue
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This Lime Tree Bower My Prison - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Read by Andrew Motion
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Instruments - Malika Ndlovu
The Classics

The Rolling English Road

Read by Daljit Nagra
The Rolling English Road - G. K. Chesterton - Read by Daljit Nagra
The Classics

There Is No God

Read by Jacob Sam-La Rose
There Is No God - Arthur Hugh Clough - Read by Jacob Sam-La Rose
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The Calling of the Apostle Matthew - James Lasdun
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Faith - Jacob Sam-La Rose
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Coffee in Heaven - John Agard
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Article of Faith - Julia Bird
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