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Judith Beveridge
B. 1956
One of Australia's most gifted poets of both the natural and the human world.
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Jen Hadfield
B. 1978
I go to the rockpool at the slack of tide/ to mind me what my poetry's for. - Jen Hadfield from 'Daed-traa'.
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Mark Strand
B. 1934 D. 2014
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. Mark Strand
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Norman Nicholson
B. 1914 D. 1987
There stands the base and root of the living rock /Thirty thousand feet of solid Cumberland. - To the River Duddon, Norman Nicholson
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Ted Kooser
B. 1939
I try to honor my reader's patience and generosity by presenting what I have to say as clearly and succinctly as possible. - Ted Kooser
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Laurie Lee
B. 1914 D. 1997
It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me. - Laurie Lee
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William Carlos Williams
B. 1883 D. 1963
Forget all rules, forget all restrictions, as to taste, as to what ought to be said, write for the pleasure of it... - William Carlos Williams
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Lavinia Greenlaw
B. 1962
Things change, become home and we must leave them - Lavinia Greenlaw, 'Guidebooks to the Alhambra'
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Michael Symmons Roberts
B. 1963
Informed by a sense of grace, of transcendence... the pieces are grounded in detail, beautifully expressed, subtly luminous. - The Guardian