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By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

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I have met so many good people of Petersburg, and I love the great possibilities that the city has on the horizon' ...

That’s how it feels to me: running headlong into a kind of energy, hoping that the voice of this poem will fly. Though it flops down over and over again, you keep running into that wind with the ...

Ronan McGrory was injured in the attack which claimed the lives of his friends Shaun McLaughlin and Oran Doherty.

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“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite of poems entirely in Scots.” If your first thought is “But ...