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25 June 2017

Madeleines

A new poem by Gary Allen.

By New Statesman

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Gary Allen was born in Northern Ireland and has published 14 collections, most recently Jackson’s Corner (Greenwich Exchange)

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This article appears in the 21 Jun 2017 issue of the New Statesman, The zombie PM