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'One of our finest poets of thwarted or impossible love' - Adam Thorpe, the Guardian

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Glyn Maxwell covers a greater distance in a single line than most people do in a poem. Joseph Brodsky

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I take what the world throws at me, and spin, twist, skim, fly, flip, throw it back - Selima Hill

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Reality is where things happen - Michael Jackson

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Thomas Hardy

B. 1840 D. 1928

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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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'A poet of sassy urban heartache, deftness, humour and considerable ingenuity' - Michael Glover

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Jan Owen

B. 1940

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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

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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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The furthest distances I've travelled/ have been those between people. Leontia Flynn

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Hampton is an open-minded writer, with the uncertainties and hesitations of the true seeker. - Stephen Lawrence

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Intimates' faces up to life at every turn. It celebrates, it laments, it answers back. David Constantine.

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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'

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