“The best poetry of WW2, the most truthful and penetrating, poetry which is rooted in the ground of physical experience, suspicious of the abstract and conforming to the discipline of provenly effective forms.”

—  Vernon Scannell

Not Without Glory, 1976

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British boxer and poet 1922–2007

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