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Richard Price
B. 1966
Richard Price retains an individual voice in which intense feelings of love, or dislocation, are packing into often short, complex lyrics -- Carol Ann Duffy
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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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Connie Bensley
B. 1929
She has the comic's knack of placing a lot of weight on thin-shouldered words, words blurred by common currency which are suddenly brought into sharp focus and don't really want to be. Beyond the laughs there's great poignancy - Observer
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Ross Sutherland
B. 1979
Lucid observations, smart conceits and insight into the contemporary world as a fragmented, self-constructed thing. - The Independent
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Greta Stoddart
B. 1966
the irresistible clarity of images [are] so right they deliver an almost physical connection, joining poem and reader as her swifts do, 'fluid, / workmanlike, fixing rips in the sky'. ? Sarah Crown, Guardian
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Kelwyn Sole
B. 1951
His keen observation invokes an expanded cognition and a braver engagement with one's personhood. -- Liesl Jobson
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Frederick Tuckerman
B. 1821 D. 1873
Nor can I drop my lids, nor shade my brows, but there he stands beside the lifted sash. - Frederick Tuckerman 'An Upper Chamber In A Darkened House'