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June 18, 2009

June 18, 1932

The British poet, Geoffrey Hill, was born on June 18, 1932. His poetry is more likely to refer to hip cats, than rosehips and cats. Hill though puts cats in a modern setting with lines like:

Ruin smell of cats urine with a small gin.
Develop the anagram - care to go psychic?

The lines above are from the collection titled "Speech! Speech! Poems"
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