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Collected Poetry:

chatham interitus

failure not success

the artists credentials

looking at paintings

the mistery of becoming

The first three collections in this volume were originally published as individual pamphlets by Vipers Tongue, an imprint of Hangman Books in 2023; the fourth collection was published by the Tangerine Press of New Malden, as part of the celebrations for the painting exhibit of the same name at Carl Freedman Gallery of Margate in that same year; the fifth and final collection consists of previously unpublished work.

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Billy Childish

Poems from Fossilised Cretaceous Seams

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Released07/01/2024Catalog NumberFossilisedCretaceousLearn more