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- Published 20221101
- ISBN: 978-1-922212-74-0
- Extent: 264pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook
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Poetry Thirty lines max, it says. Only twenty-nine left as some wag might have quipped but who’s counting? All bags must be opened for inspection. All poems disassembled and unpacked so...
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