Breathe

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In this third and final part of his three-part series, Leon Conrad, author of Story

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One of the greatest challenges for a poet is to find something new to say. It’s all been said before. Any poet who manages to find a truly original subject should keep very quiet about it, write the p

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Pattern theory

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