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Laurence Lerner

B. 1925 D. 2016

6 poems available

His poems are meant for everyone ... A genuinely popular poet, who deserves to be better known. - Peter Porter

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'this spiral / of making while unmaking while / the world goes round' -- Mary Jo Salter, 'Young Girl Peeling Apples'

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Tom Leonard

B. 1944 D. 2018

8 poems available

He treasures the grain of the speaking voice -- Robert Crawford

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5 poems available

if the body is a great creation why wait / indoors with it?

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5 poems available

A poet confident in her mastery of the medium -- J.M. Coetzee

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4 poems available

Wheatley's is a poetry of displacement, uncertainty and sheer possibility ... Stimulating, resourceful and often very funny - The Guardian

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7 poems available

'the sky is a reservoir of wrong-headed questions'. Jack Underwood

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7 poems available

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

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Dick Davis

B. 1945

6 poems available

The balance of passion and poise is a constant tension in Davis's work - PN Review

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4 poems available

Joyous, brilliant and moving -- Costa Prize judges

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4 poems available

Haunting, hilarious, exquisitely inventive - Mark Ford

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C. H. Sisson

B. 1914 D. 2003

4 poems available

The last English modernist ? Guardian

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