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The uses of poetry to a brilliant travel writer
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Some holiday reading from some favourite poets
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Dateless Night
On the darkness of Shakespeare's Sonnet 30
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An unexpected endorsement from a best-selling novelist
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After Joe Brainard
Little by Little It Dawned
On getting to the heart of Paul Muldoon's "Yarrow"