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Your support makes all the difference.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.
Ken Smith was born in 1938 in Rudston, East Yorkshire. He has worked in Britain and America, held writing fellowships at various universities, and was GLA writer-in-residence at Wormwood Scrubs prison. His most recent collections include Wormwood (1987) and The heart, the border (1990). He also edited the anthology Klaonica: poems for Bosnia (Bloodaxe, 1993) with Judi Benson. This poem is from Tender to the Queen of Spain (Bloodaxe, 1993) price pounds 6.95.
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