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Ahren Warner
B. 1986
'pizzazz, wit and - astonishing at his age - both technical assurance and a genuinely integrated humanity' -- Fiona Sampson
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Makhosazana Xaba
B. 1957
These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts. Khosi Xaba, from 'These Hands'
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John Glenday
B. 1952
A haunting music full of subtlety of thought and religious echoes. -- Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian
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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