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- 1982 (Creation)
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Paul Hyland is an award-winning poet and travel writer who lives in Dorchester. His many publications include English topographical classics, travel books about Central Africa, India and Iberia, and most recently the acclaimed historical work Ralegh's Last Journey. He also wrote Bloodaxe's indispensable Getting into Poetry, described by Suzy Feay in Time Out as 'essential reading - the guide to the contemporary poetry scene', He performs the Art of the Impossible as a professional magician
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This was Paul Hyland's first book of poetry, it is based on a fictitious character; an Eastern bloc spy working in England, who is purported to be the author of the poems