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Matthew Sweeney was born in 1952 in Donegal and has lived in London since 1973. He works in schools and writes for both children and adults. Cacti, a Poetry Book Society recommendation, is published by Secker and Warburg at pounds 6.00. The Flying Spring Onion is published by Faber and Faber at pounds 4.99.
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