"Throw all your stagey chandeliers in wheel-barrows and move them north To celebrate my mother's sewing-machine And her beneath an eighty-watt bulb, pedalling Iambs on an antique metal footplate."
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Poets from ScotlandUniversity of Oxford alumniUniversity of Glasgow alumniFellows of the British Academy
Original Language: English
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"Opera", in A Scottish Assembly (1990)
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