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Antony Rowland (b.1970) is Professor of Literary Studies in English at The University of Salford where he teaches literature and creative writing. His poetry has been published extensively in journals, magazines and anthologies including Critical Quarterly, Stand, P.N. Review, New…

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A History of the Beard - Antony Rowland

‘The master of the barber shop practised surgery and could breathe a vein as well as mow a beard’ That’s blood in my window, yes. Forget it. Let me cover you with the suds of a laver, curleth you with…

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Singing herb singe roast vapours Fray: Saturday pie-floater in Rawson market; waxy peas island gelatine-coated pink flush before comic stall. Passionate friendship wanted with a Bentos, good sense of meat to gravy ratio. Slim, attractive suet looking for pudding love…

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If You Came - Ruth Pitter

Pitter: Yes, indeed. A very big element of that obscurity which is one of the mysteries and one of the glories of poetry, because labour as we may and labour as we must we can’t tell really from whence it…

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