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was alive, offered to publish a collection. David
Anthony of Stoke Poges, Buckingham, England, took the lead in securing legal permission. Poets and editors formed a grassroots task force to help produce and promote the book, with members from London, Derbyshire, Scotland, Wales, Queensland, New South Wales, Massachusetts, New York, Minnesota, Missouri, Maryland, California and Texas.
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Margaret Griffiths never took the TLS, PN Review, and Faber by storm. They would have been the better for it. But that wouldn't have been her style. Instead she frequented little 'zines and won our hearts pseudonymously. She was a masterful poet, and she is deeply missed."
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817:Grasshopper
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739:Eratosphere
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391:Grasshopper
387:"Biography"
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843:"Burgundy"
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322:The Times
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