W. S. Graham Quotes

William Sydney Graham was a Scottish poet, who was often associated with Dylan Thomas and the neo-romantic group of poets. Graham's poetry was mostly overlooked in his lifetime; however, partly thanks to the support of Harold Pinter, his work was eventually acknowledged. He was represented in the second edition of the Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse and the Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry . Wikipedia

✵ 19. November 1918 – 9. January 1986

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W. S. Graham Quotes

“I leave this at your ear for when you awake.”

W. S. Graham

First line of a poem dedicated to his wife Nessie Dunsmuir, Collected Poems 1942-77, Faber & Faber, London 1979

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