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Poetry gives people the power to make their voices heard. -- Toni Stuart

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A tune that one has once heard and liked [that] seems to haunt the mind and will not be dismissed until entirely mastered.

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These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts. Khosi Xaba, from 'These Hands'

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Laurence Lerner

B. 1925 D. 2016

6 poems available

His poems are meant for everyone ... A genuinely popular poet, who deserves to be better known. - Peter Porter

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Not poems of investigation, but poems of indignation ... Marsh finds self-fulfillment in the act of speaking for the Pacific culture and its inhabitants - Poetry Salzburg Review

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Sparkling poems full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness - Edwin Morgan

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Anna Crowe

B. 1945

5 poems available

There's something in me that insists it sings / Freely, for nothing, the lovely, lonely art / Called poetry, an art you understand. (from 'Venezuela' by Douglas Dunn)

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A haunting music full of subtlety of thought and religious echoes. -- Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian

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'Out of this zany dark and ice we will carry/longing and the sun in our eyes forever.' Christine De Luca, Light Show at the Botanics

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Tom Pow

B. 1950

5 poems available

Once this poem is finished, you may find me/both taking and giving breath, wherever I can.' Tom Pow,' 'The Bar at the Well of Love'

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Memorable poetry of sustained lyrical power - Peter McDonald, TLS

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Kamau Brathwaite

B. 1930 D. 2020

4 poems available

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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