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Raynor Winn on Twitter: "In honour of Simon Armitage being made the next Poet Laureate, I'm sharing page 152 of #thesaltpath which contains my one and only poem - A Tribute to
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Lockdown” by Simon Armitage: a poem about plague and hope, contact and connection – Principato Scuola
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