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Tom Paulin

New British Poetry: An Anthology

Spring 1987

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

By Tom Paulin

Just where the Seminole Trail sleaks south into Emmet StreetI came on a gunk motel that flips out this zeugma to the Scots, or the Scotch-Irish: SPEND A NIGHT, NOT […]

New British Poetry: An Anthology

Spring 1987

Belling the Cat

By Tom Paulin

From Piers Plowman Rectors and parish priests complained to the bishop that their parishes were poor since the plague-time, they begged a license and leave to live in London where […]