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Lazy on a Saturday Morning By James Wright Gulls poise on the wet arms Of the woman who is in love with the sea. She floats a...

FAMILY LIFE  by Jacques Prevert FAMILY LIFE (1) The mother knits The son goes to the war She finds this quite natural, the mother...

Jacques Prevert París, 1955 Photo by Robert Doisneau Breakfast by Jacques Prevert Jacques Prévert / Dejeuner du matin (Rimba...

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Renaissance man of the south Gary Younge remembers Langston Hughes, America's most popular poet, whose centenary is celebrated in London...

  My hero:  John Keats by Helen Dunmore   Helen Dunmore Saturday 27 March 2010 "Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one...

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Les Murray Photograph by Adam Hollingworth My hero: Les Murray 'His poetry celebrates sprawling beyond conventional boundarie...

SATURDAY NIGHT by Cristina Peri Rossi Translated by Tatiana de la Tierra In the solitary dawn through drifting secondhand smoke ...