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by Rachel Burns
Poetry Archive Now
by Genevieve Carver
The Mighty Dead
To A Stranger
Read by Kenneth Branagh
by Walt Whitman
To A Stranger - Walt Whitman - Read by Kenneth Branagh
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The mock turtle is all things to all men’ - Adham Smart
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Why I Google myself’ - Adham Smart
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And all I do is eat’ - Adham Smart
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The Door - Andrew Wynn Owen
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Francesca Woodman - Phoebe Stuckes
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Ode to the Hymen - Sharon Olds
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John Glenday
B. 1952
John Glenday had published four collections of poetry at the time of his recording for the Poetry Archive: The Apple Ghost (Peterloo Poets, 1989), which received a Scottish Arts Council Book Prize; Undark (Peterloo Poets, 1995), which was a Poetry…
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Justin Quinn
B. 1968
Justin Quinn’s poems are formal in the very best sense, finding rhythms and rhymes to match the complexities and intimacies of our lives and the world in which we live them. Lyrically exact and engaging, accessible yet intelligent, he is…
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Tim Liardet
B. 1959
Tim Liardet was born in London in 1959 and educated at the University of York and characterises his early route to poetry as “…long, and circuitous, fraught with the exactions of wrong jobs, self-doubt and the occasional suggestion of a…