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First published by Viking 1992
Published in Penguin Books 1993
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Copyright © Roger McGough, 1991, 1992
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The Elements sequence was first published in the Channel 4 book An A–Z of the Elements, which accompanied the film Equinox: The Elements, produced by Windfall Films for Channel 4 in 1991
The lines quoted as an epigraph to ‘The Darling Buds of Maybe’ are from ‘This be The Verse’ by Philip Larkin, published in the collection High Windows by Faber and Faber Ltd. Reproduced by permission of the publishers
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ISBN: 978-0-14-194422-7