Mr. McCLINTON: It just so happened that I already had the first verse.

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She took direction well and pulled it back on the first verse, careful not to overpower too soon -- and then she killed it on the high notes.

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Many smiled excitedly as they sang the first verse.

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The long list includes former actress Kitty Aldridge for her third novel, A Trick I Learned From Dead Men, while Ros Barber's The Marlowe Papers is the first novel written in verse to be recognised.

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The poems will be published alongside 1, 300 others in the first ever complete edition of Kipling's verse on 7 March.

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Summed up memorably by WH Auden in his verse Night Mail, cruelly misquoted above, the TPO made its first journey in 1838 from London to the Midlands.

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More to the point, they have also employed first-rate actors, even if dramatic effect sometimes takes priority over the finer points of verse-speaking.

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