Elizabeth Smither weaves a life lesson from strands of her own hair
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Author: Poetry Prof
Poetry Prof is the work of Doug Sillett, from Somerset in the southwest of the UK, a place who's greatest claim to poetry fame is as the site of inspiration for Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
A Long Journey
Follow Musaemura Zimunya back up an endless river into Zimbabwe’s forgotten past
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Elizabeth Jennings explores the poisonous power of paranoia in this cold-war parable
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The Instant of My Death
Sarah Jackson makes an unexpected connection in this elusive poem about travel and change.
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Rich and Poor or, Saint and Sinner
Thomas Love Peacock exposes the unfairness of religious moralism towards the poor.
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These are the Times We Live In
Imtiaz Dharker’s poem exposes institutional xenophobia through a demeaning interaction.
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Children of Wealth
Elizabeth Daryush shows how money can’t buy happiness in this sympathetic sonnet.
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