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In a Marine Light: Selected Poems (Picador Books)
1.  In a Marine Light: Selected Poems (Picador Books) by Raymond Carver
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  "beautiful, sad, poetic - my desert island book by my poetic hero"
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Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
2.  Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times by Neil Astley
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  "superb anthology - something for everyone, very moving"
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100 Poems Without a Country
3.  100 Poems Without a Country by Erich Fried
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  "don't be put off by it being german - good translation"
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The Poetry of Survival: Post-War Poets of Central and Eastern Europe
4.  The Poetry of Survival: Post-War Poets of Central and Eastern Europe by Bertolt Brecht
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  "terrible, haunting, poetry about oppression and exile"
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Collected Poems
5.  Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
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  "mystical, challenging, beautiful"
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Serious Concerns
6.  Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope
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  "very funny woman's eye view of the world"
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Poetry Paperbacks)
7.  Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Poetry Paperbacks) by Pablo Neruda
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  "wonderful love poems - spanish with translation"
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Love Poems
8.  Love Poems by Erich Fried
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  "glorious poetry of love and sex"
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Writing Poems (Bloodaxe Poetry Handbooks)
9.  Writing Poems (Bloodaxe Poetry Handbooks) by Peter Sansom
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  "essential reading if you want to write poems"
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The Collected Poems 1931-1987 (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
10.  The Collected Poems 1931-1987 (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) by Czeslaw Milosz
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  "wide-ranging, wonderful metaphors"
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