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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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Walter Raleigh
B. 1552 D. 1618
But love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning; never sick, never old, never dead, from itself never turning. - Walter Ralegh 'Walsingham'
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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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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.
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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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Dorothea Smartt
B. 1963
Dorothea Smartt reveals a poetic intelligence and maturity of form and content which definitely locates her among the best of her generation of poets. - Carol Boyce Davies