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To a Certain Controversial Public Personality

Hal Colebatch

Insulting social conventionHas been your stock in trade,But I doubt you’ll be forgivenThe scandal you’ve now made. Iconoclasm’s brought you fameBut now you’ve gone too far.Your days may well...

Galilee Guesthouse

Hal Colebatch

Coffee and leather armchairs, candlelit,nCard-playing in corners, glassware, jumping flamesnIn open fire places. Drinks to hand we sitnWatching the beards and spectacles at games. n Mount Carmel wine. The...