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"This
poem is a tribute to the Romantic poets, to Wordsworth, to
learning poems off by heart, and a tribute to St. David's
Day....I went to read poetry at a mental hospital. It is important
that you believe every word of it is true."
This poem
appears in 'Selected Poems' by Gillian Clarke, Carcanet 1985.
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"I
am irritated by the image of the poet in the great, male,
bardic model that we still have to labour under now. Orpheus
was the original model for that"
This poem
appears in 'The World's Wife' by Carol Ann Duffy, Picador
1999.
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