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Tony Curtis

New British Poetry: An Anthology

Spring 1987

Lines at Barry

By Tony Curtis

Morning light steely and sharp on the docks-water and beyond, outlining a ship in the gray Channel. At berth, one banana ship white against the old mill building where, you […]

New British Poetry: An Anthology

Spring 1987

The Last Candles

By Tony Curtis

The final stage of our journey over we reached Odessa. So glorious a scene I think my eyes had never taken in— the harbor bristling with ships of all the […]