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Claire Crowther
B. 1947
…dress hungalong my body… a balloonsinking back downits own string” (Once Troublesome). Even the short lyric ‘Snail’, with its unassuming subject, becomes a voice in which the desperation hidden in…
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Is this the nature of all truth, The blazing cock, the bride aloof, The E-string cutting like a tooth, The night that crows? The cock has seen the standing grain,…
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Honeybee, Inner Hebrides - Valerie Gillies
We sail to the Garvellachs with an autumn wind along the string of islands. Heading out over the waves, a honeybee lands on the guardrail of the yacht. Ginger-brown and…
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Kathleen Jamie
B. 1962
…string of awards and nominations, (in addition to her many prior accolades), including two short listings for the TS Eliot Award, the 2005 Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year…
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Ian Duhig
B. 1954
…Lancaster, Durham, Newcastle and his own alma mater, Leeds. His poetry is open to a multiplicity of subjects, from Apollinaire to Yorkshire pudding, from string vests to sutras; he has…
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Wendy Cope
B. 1945
…perspective to bear on social and literary foibles. She has said of her parodies that they were a way “of coming to terms with what was fashionable in poetry” and…
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Roald Dahl
B. 1916 D. 1990
…a village in Buckinghamshire. Roald told his daughters bed-time stories and out of this grew his first book, James and the Giant Peach (1961) which was followed by a string…
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Mark Tredinnick
B. 1962
…gives his writing polish and range. His poems, which employ an easy, fluid line, and which marry traditional pastoral modes with urgent ecological ideas, have earned a string of prizes…
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The Boys Bump-Starting the Hearse - Kit Wright
…stalled and what shall we do? The old don comes on, a string bag his strongbox. He knows what is known about Horace but carries no tool-box. Small boys shout…
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…ever went wrong here. Every single body that gave in. Caved in. Break through the boards in the windows. Find a man thinner than string. Blinking. Trying to keep everything…
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Charles Boyle
B. 1951
…poetry: Affinities (1977), House of Cards (1983), Sleeping Rough (1987), The Very Man (1993; all Carcanet), Paleface (1996), and The Age of Cardboard and String (2001; both Faber), the last…
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“A Higgs,” it reads, “makes gravity.” Next step? All being, moving, doing spring: The genomes’ sinuosity Of protein: their controlled tornado-string And turns where ribboning entwine With redoublings, their Cytosine,…
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…your silence. If I’m quick, I’ll catch a full cluster — think frogspawn — a string of words, writhing, still warm, to lob back, burst at where you stand….
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St. Paul’s Festival - Muneera Pilgrim
i The string section of Starvue’s ‘Body Fusion’ fills the air like a collapsing canopy of summer rain. I suspect the speakers stacked off Thomas Street are Toyboy VIP….
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The language game “I am afraid” already contains the object There was a milk tooth, with the string that pulled it. There was a letter in your father’s hand….
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…to get me into a National Health Hospice somewhere in Manchester? I’ll stand in the middle of my cubicle holding onto a piece of string for safety, shaking like a…
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…string. The joy of perpetual bicker. Your seat at the open door. The shutters banged back. A dark acrobat who somersaults through to rob a few of the glittering company….
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…the past, loop-holed, lacy, tossed off on the wing. The beetle is needled right through on one string. He peels a strip as he packs a shelf. He is thrilling…