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World Service,10 Aug 1989,28 mins

London's poetry row

Meridian

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A report on a row in the poetry world. The London poetry community is in the midst of a row between Michael Horovitz and other poets, whom he claims are being betrayed by a publishing mafia. Also featured in the programme, a 19th Century Klondike gold rush tale by James A. Michener, biography of an American exile Paul Bowles and one author who is claiming our planet faces disaster.

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