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A Chinese Restaurant Called Happiness - Will Burns
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Photograph of Chet Baker - Will Burns
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I Ran Away from Home to see how long it’d take my Mother to Notice - Raymond Antrobus
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Poetry Archive Now
by Rachael Li Ming Chong
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by Martin Figura
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by Ramona Herdman
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Rainforest in the Sleep Room - Pascale Petit
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Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong - Ocean Vuong
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John Keats
B. 1795 D. 1821
Keats was born in London in 1795. His father was killed in a riding accident when Keats was eight; his mother died six years later, probably from tuberculosis. The loss of his parents, especially of his mother, was to help…
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Imtiaz Dharker
B. 1954
Born in Pakistan and brought up in Scotland, Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and documentary film-maker who divides her time between London and India. This mixed heritage and itinerant lifestyle is at the heart of her writing: questioning, imagistic…
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Helen Dunmore
B. 1952 D. 2017
Helen Dunmore (1952-2017) was the second of four children, her father the eldest of twelve. As she said herself “In a large family you hear a great many stories,” a grounding which influenced her career as a writer of both poetry…
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Ted Kooser
B. 1939
Ted Kooser (b. 1939) is one of America’s most highly regarded poets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for his eleventh collection, Delights and Shadows, and US Poet Laureate from 2004-06. However, this success came late; for much of…
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Owen Sheers
B. 1974
Owen Sheers (b. 1974, Fiji) was chosen as one of the Next Generation Poets and as one of the Independent’s top 30 young British writers on the strength of his first book of poetry, The Blue Book. His second, Skirrid…