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Ruth Fainlight
Ruth Fainlight Reading From Her Poems
Ruth Fainlight (b. New York, 1931) is an award-winning poet and translator, whose collections, starting with Cages in 1966, have spanned five decades.
UA Fanthorpe
UA Fanthorpe Reading From Her Poems
UA Fanthorpe (b.1929) spent her earliest years in Kent. She attended St Anne's College Oxford afterwards becoming a teacher and ultimately Head of English at Cheltenham Ladies' College.
Helen Farish
Helen Farish Reading From Her Poems
Helen Farish was born in Cumbria in 1962, where she now lives. She was the first female Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust (2004-5).
Paul Farley
Paul Farley Reading From His Poems
Paul Farley has described poetry as "a long word which can be stretched". His sense of humour is easily seen in his work, and often evident in his wry introductions, as recorded here.
Vicki Feaver
Vicki Feaver Reading From Her Poems
Vicki Feaver (b. 1943) grew up in Nottingham ""in a house of quarrelling women"", an emotional inheritance which finds later expression in her poetry. She studied Music at Durham University and English at University College, London.
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