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http://booksbywomen.org/wp-content/uploads/The-New-Mrs-Clifton-380x609-1.jpg380609It certainly is not for the fun of sitting hour after hour in my study on the days when the ideas have dried up at source and the words are being stickily stubborn, bad-tempered and unmalleable. It is not for the times when, having made a journey to an out-of-the-way book festival, it is only […]