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1547:(Hexham: Flambard, 1999)
1419:(New York: Viking, 1988)
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1725:(Sydney: Picador, 2007)
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1845:Chris Crowe
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1683:Diane Brown
1631:Alan Wearne
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1513:Anne Carson
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1398:Vikram Seth
1386:Alan Wearne
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1202:Sonya Sones
1182:Karen Hesse
1146:The Prelude
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1028:Vikram Seth
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509:Verse novel
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301:Speculative
240:Short story
110:spoken word
100:Performance
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1354:Les Murray
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