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Arthur Hugh Clough
B. 1819 D. 1861
'There is no God,' the wicked saith, 'and truly it's a blessing, for what he might have done with us it's better only guessing.? - Arthur Hugh Clough 'There Is No God'
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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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Matthew Francis
B. 1956
'Francis shows us how exactingly language is a form of attention and how poetry can hold our attention in spectacular ways'. The Guardian
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Andrew Greig
B. 1951
As activities, writing poetry and climbing have few connections, apart from a heightened sense of being and awareness, of being fully engaged. Andrew Greig
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Charles Wright
B. 1935
We've all led raucous lives,/ some of them inside, some of them out./ But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Charles Wright (from 'Littlefoot')
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Amy Clampitt
B. 1920 D. 1994
Man, you call yourself a poet and you don't know chickadees? Amy Clampitt
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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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Paul Muldoon
B. 1951
Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini. Paul Muldoon.