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Sylvia Townsend Warner
B. 1893 D. 1978
This marvellous book has exceeded my expectations...it displays admirable craftsmanship, a subtle, musical ear and immense variety. John Mole on the Collected Poems of Sylvia Townsend Warner, South West Review
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Clive Wilmer
B. 1945
What thou lovest well remains, / the rest is dross / What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee / What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage -- Ezra Pound, Canto LXXXI
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Chris Wallace-Crabbe
B. 1934
All the choir of stars and panoply of heaven / Gaze down on our pygmy web. - from The Universe Looks Down, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
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David Wagoner
B. 1926 D. 2021
...You no longer /Want to seem what you are, but something /Harmless and familiar: in a landscape/Given to greenness and the cold pastels /Of stubble and field stone... David Wagoner from 'The Principles of Concealment.'
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Makhosazana Xaba
B. 1957
These hands have Moulded monuments, created crafts, healed hearts. Khosi Xaba, from 'These Hands'
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Jane Yeh
B. 1971
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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William Butler Yeats
B. 1865 D. 1939
For everything that's lovely is / But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. 'Never Give All the Heart', W. B. Yeats
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Benjamin Zephaniah
B. 1958
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
Be precise, said wise Wei T'ai, / about the thing / but reticent / about the feeling. - from 'Poems and Things'