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by R S Kendle
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ambergris - Celia A Sorhaindo
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The Door of No Return - Yomi Sode
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Sea Canes - Derek Walcott
The Mighty Dead
Dover Beach
Read by Romola Garai
Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold - Read by Romola Garai
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Richard Murphy
B. 1927 D. 2018
Richard Murphy has been called a poet of two traditions, British and Irish. Born in 1927 at Milford, a small “Big House” of his mother’s Anglo-Irish family near Kilmaine, County Mayo, Richard spent five of his childhood years in the British…
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Denis Glover
B. 1912 D. 1980
Denis Glover emerged as a poet in New Zealand in the 1930s, one of the new artistic generation of modernists and nationalists. A product of two of New Zealand’s elite secondary schools — Auckland Grammar School and Christ’s College —…
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Sheenagh Pugh
B. 1950
Born in Birmingham in 1950, Sheenagh Pugh lived in Wales for many years before moving to Shetland, where she currently resides. She is the author of nine poetry collections (with a tenth forthcoming in 2013) and two novels, as well…
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Matthew Hollis
B. 1971
Matthew Hollis (b. 1971) has published two collections of his own poetry, and has contributed to several other poetic careers as an editor at Faber and Faber. He has also co-edited 101 Poems against War and, with W N Herbert,…
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Elizabeth Bishop
B. 1911 D. 1979
Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) at the time of her death was respected as a “writer’s writer” on account of her technical mastery and exemplary patience and dedication to her craft. Since then her reputation has risen steadily until she has become…
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W. S. Graham
B. 1918 D. 1986
W. S. Graham (1918-1986) was neglected in his own lifetime but his reputation as a major modernist romantic has been growing steadily since his death, with the help of influential champions such as Harold Pinter and Michael Schmidt. He was…