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Spring Into Events 2020
This spring, we have a smorgasbord of poetry events featuring, to name but a few, John Burnside, Vahni Capildeo, Imtiaz Dharker, Denise Riley and Aonghas MacNeacail. ...More
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I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion
Has broken Nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion
Which makes thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion
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