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China Coaster Poets

Posted: January 29th, 2010 | No Comments »

Having plugged Adam Williams new book yesterday and also having previously plugged the recent reprint of the poetry of Shamus A’Rabbit (The China Coast Ballads) I note that Adam has a nice post on his blog about the book, China Coast pidgin poetry (which many of the PC crowd don’t understand and so therefore don’t like) and Charles Leland’s (below) China Coast poetry (including a couple of reprinted ditties). Click here.

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