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He has created over the last twenty years a poetry of great tenderness in praise of the farming landscape and its human keepers. -- Les Murray

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Morley conjures a marvellous sense of nature as intimacy, something precise yet loaded and of immense importance to us. George Szirtes

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Anna Crowe

B. 1945

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There's something in me that insists it sings / Freely, for nothing, the lovely, lonely art / Called poetry, an art you understand. (from 'Venezuela' by Douglas Dunn)

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A haunting music full of subtlety of thought and religious echoes. -- Charles Bainbridge, The Guardian

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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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A poet confident in her mastery of the medium -- J.M. Coetzee

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Catherine Byron's poems write themselves where they ought: on the inside of your skin. Hilary Mantel

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Richard Murphy

B. 1927 D. 2018

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He has the gift of epic objectivity: behind his poems we feel not the assertion of his personality, but the actuality of events, the facts and sufferings of history. -- Ted Hughes

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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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Peacocke's language is shriven, precise and terribly open to the dead, to absence. -- David Morley

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Joyous, brilliant and moving -- Costa Prize judges

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Henry Vaughan

B. 1621 D. 1695

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Dear beauteous Death! the jewel of the just...

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