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Elaine Feinstein

B. 1930 D. 2019

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Elaine Feinstein (b.1930 – d.2019) was from Bootle, Lancashire and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She worked as an editor, a university lecturer and a journalist. From 1976 she lived on her writing. Feinstein’s early poetry bears the influence…

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In May 2019, Simon Armitage (b. 1963) was named as the UK’s Poet Laureate, an appointment greeted with delight by many in the poetry world and beyond. Armitage burst onto the poetry scene with Zoom! in 1989 and quickly established himself as the…

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Vicki Feaver (b. 1943) grew up in Nottingham “in a house of quarrelling women”, an emotional inheritance which finds later expression in her poetry. She studied Music at Durham University and English University College, London and worked as a lecturer…

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Anne Stevenson

B. 1933 D. 2020

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Anne Stevenson, inaugural winner of the Northern Rock Writers Award in 2002, was born in England of American parents in 1933 and educated in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where her father was professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan. After…

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Anthony Thwaite

B. 1930 D. 2021

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Anthony Thwaite (b. 1930 – d. 2021) was deeply involved in English literary life; in addition to 15 volumes of his own poetry, he was a a publisher and literary editor of magazines such as The Listener and the New…

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On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood - Richard Harrison
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Duplo City - Richard Harrison
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Loop of Jade - Sarah Howe
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inheritance - Toni Stuart
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To Andrew, Before One - Alasdair Gray
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A bow-tie pattern - Richard Price
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What’s in a name? - Christine De Luca
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Miniatures - Simon Armitage
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My Grandfather Dreams Twice of Flanders - Ron Butlin
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