“I'm no novelist. Or anything else, I suppose, except, just possibly a poet, once in a while.”
Scannell's diary entry - 28 December 1966 James Andrew Taylor - Walking Wounded: The Life and poetry of Vernon Scannell O U P 2013 ISBN 9780199603183
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