The Daily Poem: Poem (after Ladislav Skala)

Tuesday 05 October 1993 23:02 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.

Don Paterson is one of the 10 poets shortlisted for the pounds 5,000 T S Eliot prize. Each of the poets will be featured in the Daily Poem this week and next. The winner will be announced next January, after an Oscars-style process in which the 1,850 members of the Poetry Book Society will each have a vote. He was born in Dundee in 1963, left school at 16 and has worked as a musician. He lives in Brighton. This poem appears in Nil Nil published by Faber & Faber at pounds 5.99.

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