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Yvor Winters
B. 1900 D. 1968
Yvor Winters (b. 1900) was notorious in his lifetime for his recalcitrant literary criticism which rejected modernism in favour of reason in poetry. His own poetry, after a youthful dalliance with imagism, similarly stands outside the mainstream of poetic developments…
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Allen Tate
B. 1899 D. 1979
Youngest of three sons, Allen Tate was born in Kentucky in 1899. His father was a businessman whose interests forced the family to move home up to three times a year, prompting Tate to later write: “we might as well…
Poet
Yusef Komunyakaa
B. 1947
Yusef Komunyakaa was born in 1947 in the quiet mill town of Bogalusa, Louisiana. Son of a carpenter he was raised in a house of few books at the beginning of the civil rights movement. His grandparents were church people…
Poet
Alfred Tennyson
B. 1809 D. 1892
Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) was born in Somersby, Lincolnshire, the third surviving son of a rector whose violent alcoholism blighted the family home. Tennyson went to Cambridge where he met Arthur Henry Hallam whose early death was to prompt Tennyson to…
Poet
Fred D’Aguiar
B. 1960
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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Alan Brownjohn
B. 1931
Alan Brownjohn (b. 1931) grew up in London and was educated at Merton College, Oxford. He worked first as a schoolteacher and then a lecturer before becoming a full-time freelance writer in 1979. His writing life since then has demonstrated…
The Classics
We Wear the Mask
Read by David Yezzi
We Wear the Mask - Paul Laurence Dunbar - Read by David Yezzi
The Classics
On being brought from Africa to America
Read by Mary Jo Salter
On being brought from Africa to America - Phyllis Wheatley - Read by Mary Jo Salter
Poem
Guys like Gauguin - Selina Tusitala Marsh
Poem
The Levite’s Concubine - David Kinloch
Poem
Poem
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The Classics
Epistle to Cobham from Moral Essays (extract)
Read by John Fuller
Epistle to Cobham from Moral Essays (extract) - Alexander Pope - Read by John Fuller
Poem
Poem
Ballad of the Bread Man - Charles Causley
The Classics
After Blenheim
Read by Daljit Nagra
After Blenheim - Robert Southey - Read by Daljit Nagra
The Classics
The hog, the sheep and the goat, carrying to a fair
Read by Jo Shapcott
by Anne Finch