A comprehensive guide to modern poetry in English where celebrated poets offer intriguing views on their fellow poets, such as Tom Paulin on Ted Hughes, and Anne Stevenson on Sylvia Plath.
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Robert Adamson
(1943 -- ), grew up in Sydney but while a young teenager ran away to live as a fisherman on the Hawkesbury River.
John Agard
(1949 -- ), was born in British Guiana (now Guyana). Together with Linton Kwesi Johnson and Benjamin Zephaniah ,
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Agrarianism
a movement among men of letters in the American South of the late 1920s and 1930s to defend its traditional agricultural way of life against the
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(1947 -- ), was born in Tucson, Arizona, of mixed Native American, African American, and Japanese heritage; she studied writing with Galway
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Dick Allen
(1939 -- ), was born in Troy, New York, and grew up in Round Lake Village, a rural community north of Albany.
Maya Angelou
(1928 -- ), was born in St Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Arkansas and California.
William Arrowsmith
(1924 -- –92 ), was born in New Jersey and spent his boyhood in Massachusetts and Florida.
John Ash
(1948 -- ), was born in Manchester, and studied at the University of Birmingham then worked as an elementary-school teacher and research
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John Ashbery
(1927 -- ), was born in Rochester, New York, and brought up on a farm in Sodus nearby.
George Barker
(1913 -- –91 ), was born in Loughton, Essex, educated at Marlborough Road, Chelsea, and Regent Street Polytechnic, London.
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Lascelles Abercrombie
(1881 -- –1938 ), was born just outside Manchester, at Ashton upon Mersey; he was educated at Malvern College and at Victoria (later Manchester) University.
Dannie Abse
(1923 -- ) has a Jewish background, is Welsh, and a doctor: biographical facts which feature in his poems.
Chinua Achebe
(1930 -- ), is one of the foremost literary figures in Africa. He was born in Ogidi, in rural Eastern Nigeria, where, alongside his family's
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Diane Ackerman
(1948 -- ), was born in Illinois, and received her doctorate from Cornell University; she writes regularly for The New Yorker .
Milton Acorn
(1923 -- –86 ), was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Seriously wounded in the Second World War, he returned home and worked as a
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Arthur H(enry) Adams
(1872 -- –1936 ), was born in Lawrence in the Otago province of New Zealand's South Island, the son of a Tasmanian-born surveyer and astronomer.
Léonie Adams
(1899 -- 1988 ), was born in New York City and educated at Barnard College.
