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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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Cycnus in Soho  - Will Burns
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A Man Made of Water - Will Burns
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Parasites - Keith Jarrett
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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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Gone - Nii Ayikwei Parkes
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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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Ode to the Hymen - Sharon Olds
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John Keats

B. 1795 D. 1821

7 poems available

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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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

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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

11 poems available

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, 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…

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