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Dannie Abse, Patience Agbabi, Maya Angelou, Simon Armitage, Aphra Behn, William Blake, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Robert Browning, Leonard Cohen, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Tim Cumming, Laura Dockrill, Maura Dooley, Martin Doyle, James Fenton, Andrew Forster, Sophie Hannah, W. N. Herbert, Ian Horn, JC001, Jackie Kay, Jacob Sam La Rose, Philip Larkin, Gwyneth Lewis, Roger McGough, Ian McMillan, Adrian Mitchell, Dorothy Molloy, Naomi Shihab Nye, Dans le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, Anne Stevenson, Natalie Stewart, Kate Tempest, Benjamin Zephaniah,

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Gwyneth Lewis

Gwyneth Lewis was Wales’s National Poet from 2005-06, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship. She has published seven books of poetry in Welsh and English. Chaotic Angels (Bloodaxe Books, 2005) brings together the poems from her three English collections, Parables & Faxes, Zero Gravity and Keeping Mum. A Hospital Odyssey is forthcoming from Bloodaxe in 2010. (From Gwyneth Lewis’s home page)

This film by Pamela Robertson-Pearce is from the DVD-book IN PERSON: 30 POETS, ed. Neil Astley (Bloodaxe Books, 2008):
Bloodaxe Books – In Person