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‘The Missing’
For BBC 100: T.S. Eliot Prize Winning Reading
‘The Missing’ - Roger Robinson
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Dear Hearing World - Raymond Antrobus
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The Surrealists’ Summer Convention Came to Our City - Jo Shapcott
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Revelation - Andrew McMillan
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Andrew McMillan
B. 1988
Andrew McMillan’s debut collection physical was the only collection to win The Guardian First Book Award. It also won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, a Somerset Maugham Award (2016), an Eric Gregory Award (2016) and a Northern Writers’ award (2014)…
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Low Edges - Helen Mort
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Dis Poetry - Benjamin Zephaniah
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Ceremony - Louise Glück
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Louise Glück
B. 1943 D. 2023
Louise Glück is an American poet and essayist. She won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, with the judges praising “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”. The poet Craig Morgan Teicher has described her as a…
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What the Mermaid Told Me - Adrian Mitchell
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The Discovery of the Pacific - Thom Gunn
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Eavan Boland
B. 1944 D. 2020
Eavan Boland was one of the foremost female Irish writers. Being a female poet in Ireland presented many challenges for Boland. In her collection of essays, ‘Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time’ she…
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Maya Angelou
B. 1928 D. 2014
Maya Angelou was born in St. Louis, Missouri on April 4th 1928, and raised in Arkansas. She is often referred to as the pioneer for African-American Women’s writing in the U.S. and remains an internationally celebrated storyteller. Angelou’s poetry, autobiographical fiction, essays…
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Geoffrey Hill
B. 1932 D. 2016
Sir Geoffrey William Hill, FRSL was a poet, professor emeritus of English literature and religion, and former co-director of the Editorial Institute, at Boston University. Hill has been considered to be among the most distinguished poets of his generation, described…