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Arundhathi Subramaniam
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Arundhathi Subramaniam's poems explore various ambivalences -- around human intimacy with its bottlenecks and surprises, life in a Third World megalopolis, myth, the politi...
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Esther Morgan
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Esther Morgan's third collection GRACE is shortlisted for the 2011 T.S. Eliot Prize. The main themes of her poetry are loss, loneliness and what remains unspoken. She descr...
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Tomas Transtromer, winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature
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The Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2011. His books sell thousands of copies in Sweden, and his poetry has been translated into 60 langu...
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Driving to work with Brendan Kennelly
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In "Driving to work with Brendan Kennelly", the poet's editor Neil Astley takes you on his daily commute through the Tarset Valley of Northumberland to the Bloodaxe office ...
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Luljeta Lleshanaku
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Luljeta Lleshanaku belongs to the first "post-totalitarian" generation of Albanian poets. Born in 1968, she grew up under house arrest because of her family's opposition to...
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Clare Pollard reads from Changeling
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Clare Pollard reads four poems from her latest collection CHANGELING (2011) and talks about the book's themes. Steeped in folktale and ballads, CHANGELING takes on our myth...
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Brian Turner reads his Iraq War poems
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Brian Turner served for seven years in the US Army. He was an infantry team leader for a year in Iraq from 2003. Turner's is a powerful poetry of witness, exceptional for i...
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Ruth Bidgood at Ledbury Poetry Festival
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Ruth Bidgood gave a rare reading at Ledbury Poetry Festival in July 2010. This year -- at the age of 88 -- she won the Roland Mathias Prize for her most recent collection "...
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Susan Wicks
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Susan Wicks's poetry transforms the apparently ordinary into something precise, surprising and revelatory. Kathleen Jamie described her as 'a poet of deceptive power, who c...
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Carole Satyamurti
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Carole Satyamurti's poetry explores love, attachment and the fragility of personal survival, charting the tension between connected and separate lives. With an unflinching ...
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