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Tell of the Sad Derangement of the Mind - Sebastian Barker
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Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying
Read by Andrew Motion
by A E Housman
Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying - A E Housman - Read by Andrew Motion
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Ted Kooser
B. 1939
Ted Kooser (b. 1939) is one of America’s most highly regarded poets, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for his eleventh collection, Delights and Shadows, and US Poet Laureate from 2004-06. However, this success came late; for much of…
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Ted Hughes is Elvis Presley - Ian McMillan
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Ted Hughes
B. 1930 D. 1998
Ted Hughes (1930-1998) is a brooding presence in the landscape of 20th Century poetry, not unlike the six hundred feet-high Scout Rock which overshadowed his Yorkshire childhood. Hughes’ early experience of the moors and his industrially-scarred surroundings were the keynotes…
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Tasting Note for Grief # 17 - Karen McCarthy Woolf
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Tara Bergin
B. 1974
Tara Bergin was born in Dublin and moved to the UK in 2002 to undertake academic research. This culminated in a PhD on Ted Hughes’s translations of the post-war Hungarian poet Janos Pilinszky which she completed at Newcastle University, where…
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Tanya Shirley
B. 1976
Tanya Shirley is a startlingly bold writer with a particular gift for highlighting the telling detail in her vivid and arresting poems, which variously contain portraits of lovers, colourful eccentrics and family snapshots that capture the elusive magic of childhood…