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Poetry: language against which we have no defenses

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Apr 15, 2023
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In honour of April being National Poetry Month in the United States, Substack kindly asked me to launch my work on their site. The idea had a very fortunate beginning, initiated as it was by a chance meeting with a Substack executive one morning in my favourite coffee bar in Nosara, Costa Rica, where my eyes were opened by her enthusiasm, and by the pos…

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