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What convinces Jeremy Corbyn that ‘there is a poet in all of us’?

‘Nobody should ever be afraid of sharing their poetry’, he says, in an anthology co-edited with Len McCluskey. But, judging by his own offering, afraid is what we should be

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  • Poetry for the Many

    edited by Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey

    OR Books, pp. 272, £12

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