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by Paul Birtill
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
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Above all else he desperately
wants to be prime minister –
wants the top job with all the
trimmings and trappings of the
highest office in the land –
Chequers, Number 10, portrait
on the wall, trips to America
to meet leaders, a mention in the
history books, a peerage. But he
won’t do anything, nothing at all,
you’ll barely notice a difference.
All that will change will be some
furniture in 10 Downing Street.
Paul Birtill is well-known as a Liverpool poet on the circuit. His most recent poetry collections are Bad News and All’s Well that Ends, both published by Wrecking Ball Press.
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