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Anthony Lawrence
B. 1957
I trust my imagination and love of language to get me there. Anthony Lawrence
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Matthew Sweeney
B. 1952 D. 2018
The act of writing is a process of curiosity and discovery, with the unconscious mind leading, and everything focussing on finding the right concrete details. Matthew Sweeney
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Sarah Maguire
B. 1957 D. 2017
At once catalogues of ordinary, precise vision...and poems of musical and metaphysical ambition, Maguire is the heiress of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. Adam Phillips, The Observer
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Kathryn Simmonds
B. 1972
Quirky, witty, moving Kathryn Simmonds' gift is to find joy and beauty in unexpected places. She invests the everyday world with an extraordinary luminosity. Jackie Kay
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Rodney Jones
B. 1950
...one of the best, most generous, and most brilliantly readable poets currently making poems in America. - David Baker, 'Poetry', on Rodney Jones
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Jane Hirshfield
B. 1953
Hirshfield's poems renew, reaffirm the power of language to move deeply, to articulate experience precisely. - The Antioch Review
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Robert Hass
B. 1941
Poetry is a way of living...a human activity like baking bread or playing basketball. - Robert Hass
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Roald Dahl
B. 1916 D. 1990
A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men. - 'Charlie & the Chocolate Factory', Roald Dahl
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Ted Hughes
B. 1930 D. 1998
Poetry is the voice of spirit and imagination and all that is potential, as well as of the healing benevolence that used to be the privilege of the gods. - Ted Hughes
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Edwin Morgan
B. 1920 D. 2010
the most dynamic, brilliant, free-wheeling poet around, endlessly accessible and inventive - The Scotsman
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Adrienne Rich
B. 1929 D. 2012
If you think you can grasp me, think again - Adrienne Rich, from 'Delta'