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No, not my poetry, for which fact, had you ever read any, you would be on your knees profusely thanking whatever god(s) you
subscribe to. Instead, I've collected my favourite poetry for your perusal. I've decided to only allow one work per poet,
as if I didn't, there would be certain cases where I just wouldn't know where to draw the line (Ted Hughes, for instance).
This does mean that some selections are banally predictable, but there is often very good reason for their ubiquity. Some
choices may, however, come across as more obscure, and by finding them amongst already familiar works, your eyes might be
opened to a whole new dimension. And the purpose lies not so much in the poems themselves, but in the corpus, in the poets
who are represented and those who are not. For example, I sincerely hope that Philip Larkin is conspicuous by his absence.
I haven't been able to replicate the original formatting of some the poems as closely as I would have liked, which irked me
somewhat, but I suppose it's the words that really matter.
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