Dorothy Sian NortheyOne evening when they are sitting quietly together she breaks the silence and starts to talk Dorothy tells the complete story of a Yorkshire woman, in verse, from her birth early in the last century to her death in the first years of this. Like so many of her generation, she lived a life both ordinary and extraordinary; shaded by grief, troubled by family dynamics, and restricted by the realities of class, location and gender. Hers was a life where
As Parry tries to connect past and present he is haunted by dreams of Australia and of his youth
Philip Larkin and Georges Perec
The interplay of languages and the shifts of meaning from one to the other feed the musicality of the poems
pace and assurance that never lets up
Elizabeth J
Over the last fifty years he has published 32 collections of his own poems and translated many works of major international poets and fiction writers
the majority of the National Union of Mineworkers did not support theirunion
Gwyneth Lewis … Poets whose mother tongue is itself an issue
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a long-forgotten childhood friend
living in Rome as one of the city’s most established painters
drawing on unpublished material in the prison archives
