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Daily Poem

Tina Kendall
Tuesday 13 December 1994 19:02 EST
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Expectations Tina Kendall has been a writer in residence in Bristol and Bath, Huddersfield and also in Dumfrieshire; since 1992 she's also taught script writing and written and directed films. This poem appears in her first collection `Lightning On My Tongue' publis

hed by Onlywomen Press at £5.99. All this week, the Daily Poem will feature the theme of aging.

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