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Lorraine Mariner
B. 1974
'Completely original, both very funny and existentially bleak. No-one else is writing poems remotely like these'. Magma
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Gwyneth Lewis
B. 1959
She is one of very few poets to be equally probing and technically sophisticated in both languages, intuitively sensitive to the peculiarities of each. Ruth McIlroy, Planet
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Stephen Romer
B. 1957
'One of our finest poets of thwarted or impossible love' - Adam Thorpe, the Guardian
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Glyn Maxwell
B. 1962
Glyn Maxwell covers a greater distance in a single line than most people do in a poem. Joseph Brodsky
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Selima Hill
B. 1945
I take what the world throws at me, and spin, twist, skim, fly, flip, throw it back - Selima Hill
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Thomas Hardy
B. 1840 D. 1928
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Thomas Hardy
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Sophie Hannah
B. 1971
'A poet of sassy urban heartache, deftness, humour and considerable ingenuity' - Michael Glover
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Pam Ayres
B. 1947
Forget the corny comedian: Pam Ayres is a proper poet, whose wistful, funny, and perceptive verse captures both the joy and unfairness of life. - Sunday Times
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Leontia Flynn
B. 1974
The furthest distances I've travelled/ have been those between people. Leontia Flynn
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Susan Hampton
B. 1949
Hampton is an open-minded writer, with the uncertainties and hesitations of the true seeker. - Stephen Lawrence