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Gerard Benson
B. 1931 D. 2014
Gerard Benson's poetry transfigures the ordinary and leaves an aftertaste of mystery in the mind.Michael Glover, The Independent
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William Shakespeare
B. 1564 D. 1616
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape.? William Shakespeare
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Cilla McQueen
B. 1949
In the face of loss - human, natural, temporal - McQueen finds salvation in language. Often her work is about artistic endeavour itself: the desire to freeze time, the realisation that this is impossible - Sarah Quigley
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Maurice Riordan
B. 1953
Maurice Riordan's patient, contemplative poems of love and memory follow the example of Robert Frost in slowly releasing their reach and complexity while maintaining hailing distance of the proverbial - Sean O'Brien
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William Wordsworth
B. 1770 D. 1850
The eye, it cannot choose but see; / We cannot bid the ear be still; / Our bodies feel, where'er they be, / Against or with our will. Wordsworth, 'Expostulation and Reply'
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C. K. Stead
B. 1932
I think of writing a poem as putting oneself in the moment, at the moment - an action more comprehensive, intuitive and mysterious than mere thinking ... - C. K. Stead
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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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Adam O’Riordan
B. 1982
Musical, deftly patterned poems that are the products of a supple susceptibility and determined intelligence - Adam Foulds
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Brian Turner
B. 1944
How easy it is to do something / different, how hard to do / it better, is the message I get / as I hear the tyres purr - 'Training on the Peninsula', Brian Turner
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Linda Gregg
B. 1942
Linda Gregg brings us back to poetry...She is original and mysterious, one of the best poets in America. Gerald Stern
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Edward Baugh
B. 1936
I would have words as tenacious as mules/ to bear us, sure-footed/ up the mountain of night... from 'Elemental' by Edward Baugh