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First published in Great Britain in 2009 by

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This electronic edition published in 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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Lines from the poem ‘Fern Hill’ by Dylan Thomas are from The Poems

by Dylan Thomas, published by J M Dent. Reproduced by permission of

David Higham Associates.

Line from the poem ‘Not Waving But Drowning’ by Stevie Smith is from

Selected Poems by Stevie Smith, published by Penguin Books Ltd, 1978.

Reproduced by permission of the Estate of James MacGibbon.

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