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Sixty years in poems

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Friday, 27 April 2012 (on April 27, 2012)
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Carol Ann Duffy invites leading poets to recall a year in verse

**1953 *Dannie Abse
Winged Back
*

Strange the potency of a cheap dance tune.
– Noel Coward

One such winged me back to a..


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