Sharon Olds
Award-winning American poet Sharon Olds made a very welcome trip to Edinburgh to appear at the Book Festival in 2009. A poet of passion, imagination and power, her latest collection, One Secret Thing, is at once unforgiving and compassionate, humorous and angry. The perfect poetry event.
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