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Amy Clampitt
B. 1920 D. 1994
Man, you call yourself a poet and you don't know chickadees? Amy Clampitt
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Leontia Flynn
B. 1974
The furthest distances I've travelled/ have been those between people. Leontia Flynn
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Paul Muldoon
B. 1951
Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini. Paul Muldoon.
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Susan Hampton
B. 1949
Hampton is an open-minded writer, with the uncertainties and hesitations of the true seeker. - Stephen Lawrence
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Elizabeth Bishop
B. 1911 D. 1979
All her poems have written underneath - 'I have seen it.' - Randall Jarrell
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Fiona Sampson
B. 1963
Paying attention - listening - to one kind of complexity tells us something about the complexity of experience in general. Fiona Sampson
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T. S. Eliot
B. 1888 D. 1965
...the communication of the dead/is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. - from Part 1 of 'Little Gidding', T. S. Eliot
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Michael Rosen
B. 1946
What happens with me is quite often I start with a memory, mix it with observations of people I know and then mix in a bit of 'What if...?' - Michael Rosen
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PJ Kavanagh
B. 1931 D. 2015
Beyond decoration, humble, in plain rhyme, / As clear as I could, and as truthful - 'Beyond Decoration', P J Kavanagh