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The poem begins: I loved a man in Liverpool but he is gone now, and now I am here. And this ‘here’ is understood as the man-sized space occupied by the poet at the time of the poem, not the…
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If you believe I saw Joe Harriott play in 1963 and in my good blue dress, danced all night in that basement dive below Gerrard Street, Joe howling through his sax, white shirt sweat soaked and gleaming in the spotlight,…
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Propped like a capital letter at the head of what was once our bed, or like a letterheard – as if your old address were printed on my face – I’m writing you this note folded in sheets you lay…
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I have never been adept at haiku, but I keep returning to this one. It would be easy to dismiss my frustration with a joke: It demands haiku, bee within chrysanthemum, Damn. I got…
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Ciaran Carson
B. 1948 D. 2019
Ciaran Carson (b. 1948 – d. 2019) was the author of nine books of poetry and four prose works, and the winner of several awards including the Irish Times Irish Literature Prize, the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward…
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Anne Ridler
B. 1912 D. 2001
Anne Ridler (1912-2001) moved in literature throughout her life; she was the daughter of writers, with more in the extended family, and joined Faber and Faber’s poetry department while in her early twenties. She edited many collections and anthologies while…
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Charles Tomlinson
B. 1927 D. 2015
Charles Tomlinson, since his first publication in 1951, built a career that saw more notice in the international scene than in his native England; this may explain, and be explained by, his international vision of poetry. The influence of American…
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John Fuller
B. 1937
As a tutor and now Emeritus Fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, and winner of accolades including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, a Cholmondeley Award and a Forward Prize, John Fuller (b. 1937) has led a distinguished and prolific writing career,…