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Longings of the Acrobats

Nicholas Moore

Edited by Peter Riley

Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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    PETER RILEY was born in 1940 near Manchester. He studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and the universities of Keele and Sussex. He has taught at the University of Odense (Denmark) and since 1975 has lived as a freelance writer and poetry bookseller, from which he retired in 2008. He lived in ... read more
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