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Tom Paulin

  • 12/01/2008

    The Secret is Out

    Interesting to hear Tom Paulin talking so much about the sound texture of poems on yesterday’s edition of The Verb. Worth listening to while you still can (seven days). It’s a trailer for his new book, The Secret Life of Poems, which Faber describes as a primer which offers [47 poems] – or on occasion

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