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Kamau Brathwaite
B. 1930 D. 2020
His technique dazzles, and through the handling of rhythm and image he makes the world his own, and ours - The Sunday Times
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Bernard O’Donoghue
B. 1945
How perilous is it to choose / not to love the life we're shown? -- 'The Badgers,' Seamus Heaney
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J.O. Morgan
B. 1978
'Inventive, striking and memorable, Morgan is one of the most original poets around.' Andrew Motion, Guardian Books of the Year
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Sandeep Parmar
B. 1979
"This is sanity speaking, with a mask of tragedy pulled up from its face. This is a stunning poet arguing with the failing authority of her culture, the whole Silk Road curled up and hissing by her feet." Valzhyna Mort
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Karin Schimke
B. 1968
Schimke's poetry whispers, hollers, moans, bends and extends unexpectedly and beyond expectation - Malika Ndlovu
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Liz Berry
B. 1980
Ecstatic, quicksilver poems, ablaze with originality, curiosity and a passion for words. Ruth Padel
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Gwyneth Lewis
B. 1959
She is one of very few poets to be equally probing and technically sophisticated in both languages, intuitively sensitive to the peculiarities of each. Ruth McIlroy, Planet
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Lee Harwood
B. 1939 D. 2015
Lee Harwood is one of Britain's best poets and best kept secrets. -- John Ashbery