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David Wheatley
B. 1970
Wheatley's is a poetry of displacement, uncertainty and sheer possibility ... Stimulating, resourceful and often very funny - The Guardian
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Richard Murphy
B. 1927 D. 2018
He has the gift of epic objectivity: behind his poems we feel not the assertion of his personality, but the actuality of events, the facts and sufferings of history. -- Ted Hughes
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Sandeep Parmar
B. 1979
"This is sanity speaking, with a mask of tragedy pulled up from its face. This is a stunning poet arguing with the failing authority of her culture, the whole Silk Road curled up and hissing by her feet." Valzhyna Mort
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Stewart Conn
B. 1936
He stands among the indispensable poets of modern and contemporary Scotland - Douglas Dunn
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Geoffrey Lehmann
B. 1940
Poetry is our human love of metaphor. We see one thing and think something else - 'Travels in Peru', Geoffrey Lehmann
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Lee Harwood
B. 1939 D. 2015
Lee Harwood is one of Britain's best poets and best kept secrets. -- John Ashbery
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William Barnes
B. 1801 D. 1866
I be free to goo abrode, or teake agean my hwomeward road to where, vor me, the apple tree do lean down low in Linden Lea. - William Barnes 'My orcha'd in Linden Lea'
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Mark McWatt
B. 1947
Strands of autobiography, a deeply sensuous ecology of place, historical narratives; the inner world of imagination and the often difficult realities of the postcolonial nation are interwoven in McWatt's bold but carefully worked out architecture. Peepal Tree
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Peter Didsbury
B. 1946
The mountaineer climbs the mountain because it's there; the poet writes poetry so that it should continue to be there.
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Nigel McLoughlin
B. 1968
The composition stage of the poem is not finished until I am satisfied with how the poem works in the mouth and in the ear as well as in relation to its imagery and its meaning.