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James Kirkup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (247 words) |
 | James Kirkup (born April 23, 1918) is a prolific English poet, translator and travel writer. |
| He was brought up in South Shields, and educated at Durham University. |
| Kirkup is a frequent contributor to the obituary section of the British newspaper, The Independent. |
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| Since James Kirkup has turned the focus of his writing from haiku to tanka – he is no longer President of The British Haiku Society – he has had a magnificent outpouring of new works which have already been compiled into books. |
| Pikadon means, James Kirkup tells the reader in the Foreword, "the flash-explosion of an atom bomb" such as experienced by the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, 1945. |
| Kirkup gave himself and his poetic powers to such a high need there is no error. |
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