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“Olds writes “poetry more faithful to the felt truth of reality than any prose could be.” – Richard Wakefield.

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"Tempest has forged their own voice, unlike anything else in the mainstream poetry world." - The Independent

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Poetry gives people the power to make their voices heard. -- Toni Stuart

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Jane McKie

B. 1967

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'Must this be a woman's cross? This dissonance between what 'seems' and what 'is?' - Jane McKie, 'Change, Continuous Change'

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These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts. Khosi Xaba, from 'These Hands'

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'the sky is a reservoir of wrong-headed questions'. Jack Underwood

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Beautiful Girls is not a book for the faint-hearted: it will survive as testament to poetry's force in overcoming - Chris McCabe

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We are born to bring light / To honour the blessing of each moment / The gift of every life - Malika Ndlovu

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'Every time I think a new thought I can smell an old one burning.' Emily Berry

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A seamless welding of raw experience and self-observation, of music and thought - Ken Bariss

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Tough, explicit and wickedly clever - Alan Brownjohn

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D. H. Lawrence

B. 1885 D. 1930

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Not every man has gentians in his house in Soft September, at slow, Sad Michaelmas. - D.H. Lawrence 'Bavarian Gentians'

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