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William Hart-Smith This was again a poem that had an enormous influence on me as a child. His description of the vessel is superb and the...
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I met Douglas Dunn on his trip to Australia in the 1980s and we spoke for over an hour and several cups of tea. I was somewhat surprised...
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Robert Browning Meeting at Night I The grey sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low; And the startled little...
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Mr McCleod was one of my early primary school teachers. He was a returned soldier and like so many men who had some education turned to...
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O Love that wilt not let me go O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in thee; I give thee back the life I owe, That in...
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R. S. Thomas Without a doubt the major influence on my own work. I consider Thomas one of the very best of the modern poets. His...
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An exquisite poet who died too soon and so tragically. What poems might he have written had he survived the carnage of the Western Front...
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I was eight years of age when the first cardboard boxes of books were brought into the little northern suburbs primary school classroom...
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Lifesaver He was brought up out of the sea, His tall body dead. He was carried shoulder high Between the sea and the sky. The sun and the...
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The Ruined Homestead White birds, frightened from silver grass, whose blood-rose breasts and wings are thrown like petals settling down...