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May 2018
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Unseasonal Produce: Winter Words in Vari...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Simon Armitage delivers the Trinity 2018 poetry lecture entitled "Unseasonal Produce: Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres". 
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