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Sailing Away from Night

John Digby

Imprint: Anvil Press Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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  • John Digby was born in 1938. He left school at fifteen and spent five years as a keeper at London Zoo. The Structure of Bifocal Distance, his first collection of poems – described as ‘a triumph of vision’ by Nathaniel Tarn – appeared in 1974. He began to make collages ... read more
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