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Lorraine Mariner
B. 1974
'Completely original, both very funny and existentially bleak. No-one else is writing poems remotely like these'. Magma
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Ivor Gurney
B. 1890 D. 1937
There are strange Hells within the minds War made. - Ivor Gurney, 'Strange Hells'
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D. H. Lawrence
B. 1885 D. 1930
Not every man has gentians in his house in Soft September, at slow, Sad Michaelmas. - D.H. Lawrence 'Bavarian Gentians'
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Greta Stoddart
B. 1966
the irresistible clarity of images [are] so right they deliver an almost physical connection, joining poem and reader as her swifts do, 'fluid, / workmanlike, fixing rips in the sky'. ? Sarah Crown, Guardian
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Patience Agbabi
B. 1965
I write because my ink must flow like blood. The written must be spoken. Patience Agbabi
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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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Lee Harwood
B. 1939 D. 2015
Lee Harwood is one of Britain's best poets and best kept secrets. -- John Ashbery
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Gerard Benson
B. 1931 D. 2014
Gerard Benson's poetry transfigures the ordinary and leaves an aftertaste of mystery in the mind.Michael Glover, The Independent