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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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Charles Brasch
B. 1909 D. 1973
A poem comes to be written ... when a certain phrase occurs to the poet and seems to touch off a whole train of ideas and associations and as it were fuse them together. - Charles Brasch
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Edgell Rickword
B. 1898 D. 1982
The best English poet between Eliot and Empson. - The Times Literary Supplement
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Helen Farish
B. 1962
Intimates' faces up to life at every turn. It celebrates, it laments, it answers back. David Constantine.
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Dan Burt
B. 1942
The verse flexes muscle after muscle...The writing...can hover and dance. It has genuine grace. - George Szirtes
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Laurie Lee
B. 1914 D. 1997
It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me. - Laurie Lee
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Allen Ginsberg
B. 1926 D. 1997
I'm a stenographer of my mind. I write down what passes through it, not what goes on around me. I'm a poet. - Allen Ginsberg
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Dustie-Fute - David Kinloch
Poem
Nude in Bathtub - Sue Hubbard
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