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I am creating a collection of 20th Century Poets to use with seniors in May. To broaden their understanding and awareness of the world, I am trying to expose them to a wide range of poets from around the globe.

Please add a poet to the list below.


 * Poet's Name || Nationality || Lived || Suggest a poem to read ||
 * Bruce Dawe || Australian || 1930 - || Homecoming ||
 * [|C. J. Dennis] || Australian || 1876 - 1938 || Anything from //[|The Glugs of Gosh]// ||
 * Pablo Neurda || Chilean || 1904-1973 || Poverty ||
 * Gwen Harwood || Australian || 1920-1995 || [|The wound] ||
 * Langston Hughes || American || 1902-1967 || [|Harlem] [|Theme for English B] ||
 * [|Seamus Heaney] || Irish || 1939 - || [|Act of Union] [|Road to Derry] ||
 * Edna St. Vincent Millay || American || 1892-1950 || Renascence ||
 * Norman Maccaig || Scottish || 1910 - 1996 || [|Assisi] (Top hit) ||
 * Iain Crichton Smith || Scottish || 1928 - 1998 || [|Old Woman] (Page 2) ||
 * Judith Wright || Australian || 1915-200 || [|Request to a year] ||
 * Margret Atwood || Canadian || 1939- || In the secular night ||
 * Mxolisi Nyezwa || South African || 1967 - || [|Walking] [|The Man is Gone] ||
 * William Butler Yeats || Irish || 1865–1939 || [|An Irish Airman Foresees His Death] ||