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Andrew Neilson

  • 01/03/2025

    A Delinquent Spray

    “Knackered, Babes”, a poem in four sections, was published yesterday in issue 20 of the excellent Bad Lilies, edited by Kathryn Gray and Andrew Neilson. This piece is full of allusions and references to, and puns on, 80s and 90s music, hymns, praise songs and liturgy, sci-fi, literture and politics, as well as the natural

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