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Old 9th Dec 2013, 05:42
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Message by WZ662, 26.3.2007

I realise that I am submitting a reply more than six years since the contribution was sent but I would ilke to contact the author if he is still available. You quoted in that post a few lines of verse beginning "My brother he flies an Electra".
You quoted initials for the author of those lines but they do not fit. The poem was actually written by Paul Ambrose Croghan, a Manchester poet whom I used to know from 1962 until 1980, and who died in January 2003. Sometimes he used the speudonym of "Paul Connor". I have been trying to compile a collection of as much of his poetry as has survived - please see my website www.pb-enterprises.yolasite.com - but a vast amount has been lost.
If you have the full text of the poem from which you quote, or know the whereabouts of any more of Croghan's poems, I would be very interested to hear from you.
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