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Louise Bogan
B. 1897 D. 1970
Born in Maine in 1897, Louise Bogan was the daughter of a mill worker and a mentally and emotionally unstable mother. Her childhood was restless: as the Bogans moved from one New England town to the next, May Bogan indulged…
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Anne Sexton
B. 1928 D. 1974
Anne Sexton (1928-1974) is often grouped with such poets as Sylvia Plath, John Berryman and Robert Lowell as a leading figure in the so-called ‘Confessional Movement’. Born Anne Gray Harvey in Newton, Massachusetts into an upper middle-class home, Sexton never…
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T. S. Eliot
B. 1888 D. 1965
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) as a poet and critic came to define the modernist movement and still dominates the literary landscape of the last century. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri to a prominent local family. He attended Harvard…
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Jackie Kay
B. 1961
Jackie Kay (b. 1961) is an award-winning writer of fiction, poetry and plays, whose subtle investigation into the complexities of identity have been informed by her own life. Born in Edinburgh to a Scottish mother and Nigerian father, she was…
Poet
Gillian Clarke
B. 1937
Gillian Clarke (b. 1937) is one of the central figures in contemporary Welsh poetry, the third to take up the post of National Poet of Wales. Her own poems have achieved widespread critical and popular acclaim (her Selected Poems has…
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Simon Armitage
B. 1963
In May 2019, Simon Armitage (b. 1963) was named as the UK’s Poet Laureate, an appointment greeted with delight by many in the poetry world and beyond. Armitage burst onto the poetry scene with Zoom! in 1989 and quickly established himself as the…
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The Progressive Canadian Barn Dance - Jim Carruth
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Guys like Gauguin - Selina Tusitala Marsh
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The Bachelor Stripped Bare by his Brides, Even - David Kinloch
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First Letter of the Hebrew Women to St Paul - David Kinloch
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The Classics
The Witch
Read by Jo Shapcott
The Witch - Mary Elizabeth Coleridge - Read by Jo Shapcott
The Classics
Female Fashions For 1799
Read by Jo Shapcott
Female Fashions For 1799 - Mary Robinson - Read by Jo Shapcott
The Classics
The Visit
Read by Jo Shapcott
by Mary Leapor