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Poem of the week: Desert Flowers by Keith Douglas

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Not long before his cruelly early death, Douglas matched the grim reality of war with a lyric passion

Seventy years ago, the poet Keith Douglas was killed during the Allied invasion of Normandy on 9 June, three days after D-Day. He was 24.

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