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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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Watch: Anne Nolan in tears over tribute poem read at sister Linda's funeral Anne Nolan has ... "We played a song of her singing I'll Never Leave You. She sang it when we were on tour so we played that ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...

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

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