Sourcebooks, a medium-sized publisher that has developed an online group focused on poetry, found that sales of its books rose by more than 50% in the six weeks after poems from them had featured on the site.

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He said he had initially found some of Thomas' poetry "too lyrical and parochial" but he has since grown to love his imagery and use of words.

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"There was a fantastic book I found whilst scouring various bookshops, of poetry written by some of the inmates, " said Gwilym.

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In recent years, they have found ways to encode trademarks in cells and poetry in bacteria, as well as store snippets of music in the genetic code of micro-organisms.

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O'Ryan, who had trespassed onto the set of the ABC show, was arrested by police, who found loaded guns, a wooden club and handwritten poetry addressed to Johnson in his car.

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" Nearly two decades later, "Dark Matter, " with its rejection of the braggadocio and violence often found in hip-hop and its embrace of poetry and natural imagery, could finally enable this father of two to seize that mantle of "child educator.

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