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This is where I come from if it's true / to say I come from somewhere not just / anywhere south of the imagination - David Musgrave, from 'Lagoon'

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My poetry addresses whatever catches me by surprise. - Michael Sharkey

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Clive James

B. 1939 D. 2019

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“The poet is a lifer. Anyone who gets into the game will soon start wishing that there was a version of it with lower stakes, but there isn't.”

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Paradoxes interest me and the desire for beauty, for meaning, for whatever might counterbalance our commodified world... (Peter Boyle)

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I look away, but it draws my eye./The water inside me wants it./My hand wants to write it. from 'Irrigator in the Far Field' by Stephanie Norgate.

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A reckless tumble of words mixing the high and the low, like a rummage sale after the death of someone who adored both Shakespeare and smut. Norman Mailer

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Allen Tate

B. 1899 D. 1979

3 poems available

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all. Allen Tate

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Elizabeth Bishop

B. 1911 D. 1979

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All her poems have written underneath - 'I have seen it.' - Randall Jarrell

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Paying attention - listening - to one kind of complexity tells us something about the complexity of experience in general. Fiona Sampson

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Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. But the fact that writers are dealing with essential issues...I think that's a necessary integration of literary writing with what's actually going on in our world. - Marilyn Hacker

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W. S. Graham

B. 1918 D. 1986

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Have I not been trying to use the obstacle/Of language well? - 'Malcolm Mooney's Land', W. S. Graham

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E A Markham

B. 1939 D. 2008

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Markham is tireless in his resistance to orthodoxy, whether artistic, cultural or political. He speaks as he finds, in multiple, unpredictable voices. (Sean O'Brien)

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