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Hannah More

B. 1745 D. 1833

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Hannah More’s poem was written in support of William Wilberforce’s campaign to abolish slavery. A passionate, poetic explanation of the anti-abolitionists’ argument, this extract is part of a 294 line poem. ‘Oroonoko’, in the fourth line of this extract, is…

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

B. 1792 D. 1822

4 poems available

Shelley was born at Field Place, near Horsham, the eldest son of Sir Timothy Shelley, MP for the Duke of Norfolk’s pocket borough of Shoreham-by-sea. Shelley was educated at Eton, where he was known as ‘Mad Shelley’, and University College…

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Selima Hill is perhaps best known for her surrealism. Pierre Reverdy has said of surrealism that ‘the more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realities is distant and true […] the greater its emotional power and poetic reality’; this certainly…

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Tony Harrison is Britain’s principal film and theatre poet and has famously said “Poetry is all I write, whether for books, or readings, or for the National Theatre, or for the opera house and concert hall, or even for TV.”…

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Jack Mapanje (b. 1944, Malawi), currently Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, is the author of 4 collections of poetry, the editor of several more, and the recipient of awards including the Rotterdam Poetry…

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Fred D’Aguiar (b. 1960) draws on his dual Guyanese/British heritage throughout his writing which incorporates poetry, novels and plays. Although born in London, he lived in Guyana until he was twelve before returning to England where the highly politicised atmosphere…

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Vicki Feaver (b. 1943) grew up in Nottingham “in a house of quarrelling women”, an emotional inheritance which finds later expression in her poetry. She studied Music at Durham University and English University College, London and worked as a lecturer…

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Power - Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
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Poem
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The Cupboard - Christopher Reid
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The Clew - Christopher Reid
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Slavery, A Poem

Read by Patience Agbabi
Slavery, A Poem - Hannah More - Read by Patience Agbabi
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My Last Duchess

Read by Anthony Thwaite
My Last Duchess - Robert Browning - Read by Anthony Thwaite
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Portrait of My Lover as a Spoon - Selima Hill
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Portrait of My Lover as a Dress - Selima Hill
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The Sick Rose

Read by Mimi Khalvati
The Sick Rose - William Blake - Read by Mimi Khalvati
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Barbara and the restaurant bill - Elizabeth Smither
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