River Poems

About Various

Henry Hughes is a poet essayist and professor of English at Western Oregon University. He has previously edited The Art of Angling: Poems about Fishing and Fishing Stories for Everyman's Library. Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Her collections include Dart which won the 2002 T.S. Eliot Prize Woods etc. (Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize) A Sleepwalk on the Severn (Hawthornden Prize) Weeds and Wildflowers (Ted Hughes Award) Memorial (Warwick Prize for Writing) and Falling Awake which won the 2016 Costa Poetry Award and the Griffin Prize for Poetry. She was elected as the Oxford University Professor of Poetry in 2019. Langston Hughes (1901-1967) was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance and one of the most influential and acclaimed American writers of the twentieth century. A renowned poet from a young age Hughes' first collection of poetry The Weary Blues was published when he was just 24. He would go on to publish more than thirty-five books including his award-winning debut novel Not Without Laughter and the short story collection The Ways of White Folks. His widely-read journalism and nonfiction became important documents in the support and promotion of the civil rights movement.