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Dan Burt
B. 1942
Dan Burt’s poems offer the reader a dual perspective on American culture, drawing on the poet’s personal experience of being both an insider and an outsider. The son of Jewish immigrants, Burt grew up in the tough environs of South…
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Helen Farish
B. 1962
Helen Farish was born in 1962 in Cumbria, where she now lives. She has been a Fellow at Hawthornden International Centre for Writers and was the first female Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust (2004-5). She has also been…
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Laurie Lee
B. 1914 D. 1997
Laurie Lee (1914-1997) is famous for the life he wrote about so engagingly in three volumes of autobiography, but his first love was always poetry, a passion that left its mark on his precise and lyrical prose. Born in Stroud,…
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Jackie Kay
B. 1961
Jackie Kay (b. 1961) is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and plays, whose subtle investigation into the complexities of identity have been informed by her own life. Born in Edinburgh to a Scottish mother and Nigerian father, she was…
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Allen Ginsberg
B. 1926 D. 1997
Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) is cherished as the pivotal figure between the 50s Beat Generation and the counter-cultural revolution of the 1960s. He was born in Newark, New Jersey the son of a high school teacher and poet, Louis Ginsberg, and…
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The Mighty Dead
Sonnet 20: A woman’s face
Read by James Fenton
Sonnet 20: A woman’s face - William Shakespeare - Read by James Fenton
The Mighty Dead
They flee from me that sometime did me seek
Read by Helen Dunmore
by Thomas Wyatt