The daily poem

Thursday 16 June 1994 00:02 BST

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For copyright reasons we are not able to provide the full text of the poem on this database. Following are the details of the publication in which it appears.

Melanie's Bar

George Charlton was born in 1950 in Gateshead, and now lives in Newcastle. His first book-length collection, Nightshift Workers, was published by Bloodaxe in 1989. City of Dog, his second book of poems, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. This poem appears in City of Dog, published by Bloodaxe at pounds 6.95.

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