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First published 2020

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Artwork © Angela Harding

The Cure at Troy © Seamus Heaney, 2018, Faber and Faber Ltd ‘so the peleton passed’ © Simon Armitage, from the forthcoming collection New Cemetery, Faber and Faber Ltd

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