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Sarah Wimbush

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Castaway Companions

Castaway poet Sarah Wimbush chooses poems by Ted Hughes, Liz Berry and Paul Bentley to take to a desert island
The Astronaut Who Came To Tea

The Astronaut Who Came To Tea

by Sarah Wimbush — Theirs was a strange spacesuit. / Some wore garb the colour / of saffron, pimpernels, dirt-tracks, / girded themselves with sovereign / coinage and jaunty brims

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