Description
Pople, Ian. The Same Condemnation. Saddleworth , Lancashire: Published by the Author, 1989. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. Very Good. 22pp. First collection. Inscribed for Ann & Anthony Thwaite with a typed signed letter to Anthony Thwaite laid in observing that no publisher’s had wanted to take the poems as there were not enough for a full collection & thanking them for their early encouragement. Thwaite has noted the date of his reply ‘don’t ever stop writing’.








Luck Is the Hook
A Marriage
Mustard, Custard, Grumble Belly and Gravy
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
This Is Yarrow
Let Us Compare Mythologies
Poems to Elsi
The Skies Above My Eyes
The Tamarit Poems
Hansel and Gretel
Kindness Grows
Somewhere Else Entirely
Five Bedtime Poems for Children
Being Alive