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150. ‘Prayer’ is from Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy, published by Anvil Press Poetry (1933).
154. ‘Dis Poetry’ is from City Psalms by Benjamin Zephaniah, published by Bloodaxe Books. Copyright © Benjamin Zephaniah 1992.
158, 186. Faber and Faber Ltd for ‘Little Gidding’ (I) and The Waste Land (II. A Game of Chess) from Collected Poems 1909–1962 by T.S. Eliot.
160. A.P. Watt for ‘The Rolling English Road’ from The Collected Poems of G.K. Chesterton.
163. Ed Victor Ltd for ‘I think continually of those who were truly great’ from Collected Poems by Stephen Spender. © 1986 by Stephen Spender.
172. ‘A 14-Year-Old Convalescent Cat in the Winter’ by Gavin Ewart. Reprinted by permission of Margo Ewart.
179. Faber and Faber Ltd for ‘The Horses’ from Collected Poems 1921–1958 by Edwin Muir.
183. The Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare, and the Society of Authors as their representative for ‘The Listeners’.
185. ‘Fifteen Million Plastic Bags’ by Adrian Mitchell. Copyright © Adrian Mitchell. Available in Heart on the Left: Poems 1953–1984 (Bloodaxe Books, 1997). Reprinted by permission of The Peters Fraser and Dunlop Group on behalf of Adrian Mitchell. Educational Health Warning! Adrian Mitchell asks that none of his poems are used in connection with any examinations whatsoever.
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