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For poets of the House to connect and share their works, their favourtie finds, and their inspirations.
"The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good."
W H Auden
Michael Hamburger OBE (1941, Modern Languages) was a translator, poet, critic, memoirist, academic, and refugee, whose family fled Berlin for Britain … More...