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Andrew Motion
B. 1952
My poems are the product of a relationship between a side of my mind which is conscious, alert, educated and manipulative, and a side which is as murky as a primaeval swamp. - Andrew Motion
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Margaret Atwood
B. 1939
With a lyric poem, you look, and meditate, and put the rock back. With fiction you poke things with a stick to see what will happen. - Margaret Atwood
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PJ Kavanagh
B. 1931 D. 2015
Beyond decoration, humble, in plain rhyme, / As clear as I could, and as truthful - 'Beyond Decoration', P J Kavanagh
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The Mighty Dead
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
Read by David Yezzi
by Walt Whitman