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Or just very short poems. Actually I'm interested in at what point something becomes a poem and my way of investigating this is to write poems that if they were any shorter wouldn't be poems. The question are what makes something a poem, and also is it possible to agree that a piece is or isn't a poem? I have a feeling some of what I consider poetry other people wouldn't.

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Manchester's growth as the first industrial city is inextricably bound up with the slave trade. The cotton that fed Manchester's mills was slave picked cotton. I am looking for poems that can address this theme - head on, or obliquely! If you have such a poem let me know! peterkalu@gmail.com