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Sir Andrew Motion reads a poem inspired by items in the British Library archive
Poet in the City and Archives for London commissioned a series of poetry collections inspired by the archives of various London institutions. Sir Andrew Motion was inspired by the British LIbrary Archive to write a series of poems about WWI.
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