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by Rol-J Williams
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by Neetha Kunaratnam
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The death of children - Richard Berengarten
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The Battle of Maryville - Joelle Taylor
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ambergris - Celia A Sorhaindo
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Intimations - Momtaza Mehri
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Grey Girl - Sharon Olds
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Amaryllis Ode - Sharon Olds
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Sharon Olds
B. 1942
Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco in 1942. She studied at Stanford University and received her PhD from Columbia University, where she wrote a thesis on Ralph Waldo Emerson. She has published twelve books of poems, including Satan Says (1980), The Father (1992), Stag’s Leap (2012), Odes (2016)…
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Anna Crowe
B. 1945
Anna Crowe is a poet and translator based in St Andrews, Fife. Born in Plymouth, which in interview she says is “as far from Scotland as one can get in the UK,” Crowe moved to St Andrews to study and…
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Tanya Shirley
B. 1976
Tanya Shirley is a startlingly bold writer with a particular gift for highlighting the telling detail in her vivid and arresting poems, which variously contain portraits of lovers, colourful eccentrics and family snapshots that capture the elusive magic of childhood…