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Description: Ivor Bowen's film of Ken Smith reading 'Three docklands fragments', from the DVD-book IN PERSON: 30 POETS, filmed by Pamela Robertson-Pearce & edited by Neil Astley (Bloodaxe Books, 2008). These poems by Ken Smith are from SHED: POEMS 1980-2001 (Bloodaxe Books, 2002). Ken was the first poet to be published by Bloodaxe Books, back in 1978. His old friend Ivor Bowen filmed him at his home in East Ham, London, in January 2002. Ken contracted Legionnaire's Disease in Cuba the following year, an
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