Philip French - d. October 27th 2015

Such acuteness of vision

- you saw more

in the dappled dark

of a private screening

than I could ever see

in daylight’s

broad cinemascope.

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Maureen O'Hara - d. October 25th 2015

So many perfect frames
- your skyblown veil,
you in that field, eyes 
brimful of the Duke. 
You were always 
the greater part of a miracle

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Peter Baldwin - d. October 23rd 2015

Whether we play ourselves
or against type, some of us 
must take your role; little 
Englander, little islander, little 
beyond a diverting shadow.

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Gordon Honeycombe - d. October 9th 2015

...the picture shifts

from 405 lines

to 625; from black 

and white to black,

the newscaster

becomes the story.

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Denis Healey - d. October 3rd 2015

You were Labour

as in 'workers',
Socialist

as in 'principled',

old school

with no need of a tie.

Read about Denis Healey here