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‘Here is a poet with a commanding style

 The Gaelic Garden of the Dead is a forest quartet whose letters enunciate in the imagery of their own form and function

Steve Spence wrote of an earlier part of Sheppard’s sonnet project: ‘These are sharp

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Five Fifty-Five by Maura Dooley french ‘Here is a poet withMaura Dooley's poetry is remarkable for embracing both lyricism and political consciousness, for its fusion of head and heart. These qualities have won her wide acclaim. Helen Dunmore (in Poetry Review) admired her 'sharp and forceful' intelligence. Adam Thorpe praised her ability 'to enact and find images for complex feelings Her poems have both great delicacy and an undeniable toughness she manages to combine detailed domesticity with lyrical