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Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott Reading From His Poems
Derek Walcott (b. 1930) was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1992, two years after the publication of his most ambitious and celebrated work to date, Omeros.
Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur Reading From His Poems
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921, New York) is perhaps best known as the second person to hold the position of US Poet Laureate (1987-88), and is also the recipient of laurels including the Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize and the National Book Award.
Hugo Williams
Hugo Williams Reading From His Poems
Hugo Williams (b. 1942) is the son of the actor Hugh Williams and the model and actress Margaret Vyner-Williams. This glamorous yet financially precarious family life provides much of the inspiration for his poetry.
Kit Wright
Kit Wright Reading From His Poems
Kit Wright (b. 1944) is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children, and the winner of awards including an Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award.
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