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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.
Anthony Thwaite was born in 1930. He has been a university lecturer in Japan and Libya, literary editor of The Listener and New Statesman, and co-editor of Encounter 1973- 85. He has been the recipient of the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize, a Cholmondeley Award, and the OBE. This poem is from The Dust of the World (Sinclair-Stevenson). It is one of 67 poems chosen from over 140 collections and 120 individual poems to form The Forward Book of Poetry 1995, which will be published on 6 October, the same day as the announcement of The Forward Poetry Prizes.
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