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Elizabeth Smither
B. 1941
In Smither's poems, the simplest details can be trapdoors to eternity - to 'take in life' can be a promise or a threat. - Hugh Roberts
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John Moat
B. 1936 D. 2014
There are few contemporary poets whose work breathes so broadly and generously. - Adam Thorpe
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Kevin Ireland
B. 1933
If death still comes / we'll strike a pose / and hold our breath / until he goes - Kevin Ireland
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M. K. Joseph
B. 1914 D. 1981
The poem is an object which we make and set down, like an antique torso in an abandoned city, good, self-sufficient, durable, waiting for the people to come back. - M K Joseph
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Sophie Hannah
B. 1971
'A poet of sassy urban heartache, deftness, humour and considerable ingenuity' - Michael Glover
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Billy Childish
B. 1959
I am a desperate man who demands to connect...who denounces the dullness of money and status...who will not bow down to acolayed or success - 'i am the strange hero of hunger', Billy Childish
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Jan Owen
B. 1940
Nature is Owen's alembic. She writes with delicacy and strength, passion and intellect. - David Gilbey, Australian Book Review
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Antony Rowland
B. 1970
Particles of observation, incomplete phrases and strange juxtapositions seem welded by some hidden charge into a power of feeling. - John Powell Ward
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
B. 1893 D. 1978
This marvellous book has exceeded my expectations...it displays admirable craftsmanship, a subtle, musical ear and immense variety. John Mole on the Collected Poems of Sylvia Townsend Warner, South West Review