Heap high the groaning platter with pink fillets, sucking pig and thick gammon, celestial chef. Be generous with the crackling. Let your hand slip with the gravy trough, dispensing plenty.
George MacBeth Quotes
No one can read a poem unless he realises that it is a physical object as well as an abstract vehicle for conveying ideas. A poem has a material existence like a piece of music or sculpture or a plate of meat.
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| Birth: | 19th January, 1932 |
| Death: | 16th February, 1992 |
| Nationality: | Scottish |
| Profession: | Novelist, Poet |
About
George Mann MacBeth was a Scottish poet and novelist. He was born in Shotts, Lanarkshire. When he was three, his family moved to Sheffield. He was educated in Sheffield at King Edward VII School where he was Head Prefect in 1951, before going up to New College, Oxford, with an Open Scholarship in Classics.
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