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On the poet’s leaving his native land to settle in America. An ideal companion to his contribution to the Clutag Five Poems series.
(Clutag Press, 2017)
No. 2 Baltimore by Andrew Motion
£5.00
On the poet’s leaving his native land to settle in America. An ideal companion to his contribution to the Clutag Five Poems series.
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