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Poet in the City · Interview with Mona Arshi at Poet in the City’s Sylvia Plath – Life Between the Lines event Mona Arshi worked as a Human rights lawyer at Liberty before she started writing poetry. Her debut collection ‘Small Hands’ won the Forward Prize for best first collection in 2015. Her poems and…

Ezra Pound: Making It New – Dr Daniel Swift
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Ezra Pound: Making It New – Dr Daniel Swift

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Poet in the City · Interview with Dr. Daniel Swift at Poet in the City’s Ezra Pound – Making It New event Dr Daniel Swift is a Senior Lecturer in English. He has a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Columbia University in New York. He has written books about Ezra Pound, William Shakespeare,…

Hidden by Clouds – Gerður Kristný
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Hidden by Clouds – Gerður Kristný

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