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Brian Johnstone

B. 1950 D. 2021

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Brian Johnstone was a Scottish poet, born in Edinburgh in 1950.  Before his death he lived in Fife with his wife, the artist Jean Johnstone. Working as a primary school teacher for over twenty years, Johnstone began work as a…

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Kelly Grovier (b. 1968) grew up in America and was educated at the University of California, Los Angeles. He came to study at Oxford University after winning a British Marshall scholarship, and now teaches English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth…

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Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942) is a poet whose work combines the political and the personal, the traditional and the radical, to startling effect. She is a New Yorker, born in the Bronx to Jewish parents who were the first in…

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Patricia Beer

B. 1924 D. 1999

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Patricia Beer (1924-1999) was born in Exmouth, Devon, into a Plymouth Brethren family, a childhood she recalls vividly in her autobiography Mrs Beer’s House. Educated at Exmouth Grammar School, Exeter University and Oxford, she lived in Italy lecturing in English…

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Penelope Shuttle (b. 1947) has made her home in Cornwall since 1970 and the county’s mercurial weather and rich history are continuing sources of inspiration. So too is the personal and artistic union Shuttle shared with her husband, the poet…

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Ruth Padel

B. 1947

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Ruth Padel (b. 1947) has won the National Poetry Competition and written six collections of poetry, several shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot or Whitbread Prize; taught Greek at Oxford, sung in an Istanbul nightclub, is a Fellow of the Royal…

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On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood - Richard Harrison
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Poem in the Arms of Tyrannosaurus Rex - Richard Harrison
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With the Dying of the Light - Richard Harrison
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This Poem is Alive Because it is Unfinished - Richard Harrison
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Louise Brooks - Tracey Herd
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Glass House - Tracey Herd
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What I Remember - Tracey Herd
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Loop of Jade - Sarah Howe
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The Underground Observatory - Jane McKie
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