Tim Relf
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26 things you only know if you’re a poet
by Tim Relf
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We need to pay attention to those who are calling it like they see it
In Conversation: The Friday Poem talks to James Conor Patterson about the four-way auction over his debut collection with Picador, the real Newry and why poetry is capturing the zeitgeist
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Reading Banville
by Tim Relf — Cicatrice gets me googling, / as does horrent, minatory and coevals. Ditto deckle, flocculent and satyr. How / can I have got to 50 and not know so many words? How / can I have gone through this