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Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to be directly linked to the mini-collection in Nimbus, and his Collected Poems (1964)

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Patrick Kavanagh
Age: 63 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 21
Died: 1967
Died: December 1
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