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Wheatley's is a poetry of displacement, uncertainty and sheer possibility ... Stimulating, resourceful and often very funny - The Guardian

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Celebratory, mournful, critical and tender - Poetry London

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John Whitworth

B. 1945 D. 2019

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The rhymes and the rhythms are my wet paint - John Whitworth

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Walt Whitman

B. 1819 D. 1892

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And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love. - Walt Whitman 'Dirge For Two Veterans'

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Oscar Wilde

B. 1854 D. 1900

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He looked upon the garish day with such a wistful eye; the man had killed the thing he loved, and so he had to die. - Oscar Wilde 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'

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Charles Wolfe

B. 1791 D. 1823

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Slowly and sadly we laid him down, from the field of his fame fresh and gory; we carved not a line, and we raised not a stone - but left him alone with his glory. - Charles Wolfe, 'The Burial of Sir John Moore After Corunna'

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That in humour the lyrical may flourish.

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

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William Butler Yeats

B. 1865 D. 1939

8 poems available

For everything that's lovely is / But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. 'Never Give All the Heart', W. B. Yeats

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Jane Yeh

B. 1971

4 poems available

Poetry so unsettling, describing worlds so troubling and lonely, is seldom as funny, clever, and downright charming as Jane Yeh's. - Aingeal Clare

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I defy anyone to listen to a performance of his poetry and not come away uplifted - Poetry Review

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Fay Zwicky

B. 1933 D. 2017

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Be precise, said wise Wei T'ai, / about the thing / but reticent / about the feeling. - from 'Poems and Things'

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