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The Daily Poem: A Cortege of daughters

Elizabeth Smither
Sunday 01 August 1993 23:02 BST
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For copyright reasons we are not able to provide the full text of the poem on this database. Following are the details of the publication in which it appears.

Elizabeth Smither was born in New Plymouth in 1941. She has worked as a librarian and journalist and still lives in New Zealand. This poem appears in A Cortege of daughters, published as No 7 of the Cloudforms series, (available from Cloud, 48 Biddlestone Road, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne NE6 5SL), at pounds 6.95 post-free.

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