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Stephen Romer
B. 1957
'One of our finest poets of thwarted or impossible love' - Adam Thorpe, the Guardian
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Glyn Maxwell
B. 1962
Glyn Maxwell covers a greater distance in a single line than most people do in a poem. Joseph Brodsky
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Selima Hill
B. 1945
I take what the world throws at me, and spin, twist, skim, fly, flip, throw it back - Selima Hill
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Thomas Hardy
B. 1840 D. 1928
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art. Thomas Hardy
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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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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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Pam Ayres
B. 1947
Forget the corny comedian: Pam Ayres is a proper poet, whose wistful, funny, and perceptive verse captures both the joy and unfairness of life. - Sunday Times
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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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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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Helen Farish
B. 1962
Intimates' faces up to life at every turn. It celebrates, it laments, it answers back. David Constantine.
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Jeremy Hooker
B. 1941
I think of poetry as an art of seeing, an art by which, in my blindness, I learn to see. - Jeremy Hooker, 'At the Edge'