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Acknowledgements

Some of these poems have appeared in Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, ed. Michael Schmidt; Twentieth-Century Anglo Welsh Poetry, ed. Dannie Abse; the Forward Books of Poetry, 2000 and 2001; Literary Review (USA); New Welsh Review; PN Review; Pivot (USA); Planet; Poetry London; Poetry Wales; Red Poets Society; Scintilla; Wading Through Deep Water – The Parkinson’s Anthology, ed. Tony Curtis.

First published in Great Britain in 2002 by

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Copyright © Robert Minhinnick 2002

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