Explore Poetry
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Ruth Bidgood
B. 1922
She deserves unequivocal recognition as one of Wales's foremost English-language poets of the last half-century. - Matthew Jarvis
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Sheenagh Pugh
B. 1950
Who wants to know / a story's end, or where a road will go? - Sheenagh Pugh, 'What If This Road'
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Adam O’Riordan
B. 1982
Musical, deftly patterned poems that are the products of a supple susceptibility and determined intelligence - Adam Foulds
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Anthony Lawrence
B. 1957
I trust my imagination and love of language to get me there. Anthony Lawrence
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Brian Turner
B. 1944
How easy it is to do something / different, how hard to do / it better, is the message I get / as I hear the tyres purr - 'Training on the Peninsula', Brian Turner
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Michael Laskey
B. 1944
The Laskey effect...is of suddenly sensing that more meaning is inherent in 'ordinary' moments than we were expecting. - Mark Halliday
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Imtiaz Dharker
B. 1954
Are words no more than waving, wavering flags? - 'The right word', Imtiaz Dharker
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Sally Read
B. 1971
Poetry gives voice to what has no voice and form to what has no form, and creates the illusion of possession.
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Julia Copus
B. 1969
Some of the most turbulent moments in life through a sharp, clear lens. Maura Dooley
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Catherine Smith
B. 1962
Her scary, unsettling voice seems unexpected in poetry. It cuts her free of the crowd - The Times
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Vincent O’Sullivan
B. 1937
Inside every madeleine, you could say, there is a lamington waiting to come out - Vincent O'Sullivan, from 'On Longing'
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Adam Foulds
B. 1974
Writing that is full of remarkable, concentrated and pungent images - The Sunday Times