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Cover of the June 1965 edition of The London Magazine with a poem by Derek Walcott: Verandah.

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‘the sunset furled / round the last post, // ‘the flamingo colours’ of a fading world, / a ghost steps from you, my grandfather’s ghost!’

From 1965, poetry by Derek Walcott.

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