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Kris Hemensley
B. 1946
It's an existential act, it's vocational, a necessity, a way of working things out.
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Adam Foulds
B. 1974
Writing that is full of remarkable, concentrated and pungent images - The Sunday Times
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Polly Clark
B. 1968
Poems of an alert imagination and a strongly original mind, poems that run along the dangerous edge of things, risky and skilful as an acrobat. - UA Fanthorpe
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Michael Longley
B. 1939
A keeper of the artistic estate, a custodian of griefs and wonders - Seamus Heaney
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Kathleen Jamie
B. 1962
...if poetry is a method of approaching truths, and each of us with a human soul and 'a tongue in oor heids' can make an approach toward a truth, poetry is inherently democratic. - Kathleen Jamie
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Ruth Padel
B. 1947
Go for it, petal. Nothing's as real as what you write. (from Writing to Onegin, Ruth Padel)
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Michael Rosen
B. 1946
What happens with me is quite often I start with a memory, mix it with observations of people I know and then mix in a bit of 'What if...?' - Michael Rosen
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RF Langley
B. 1938 D. 2011
A Midsummer Night's Dream might still be the answer to everything. - R. F. Langley