WHO really writes Ruth Zardo's poetry?

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Sameera77 Ruth Zardo's poetry in Louise Penny's books comes mostly from Margaret Atwood's Morning in the Burned House and Marylyn Plessner's self-published book.
louisepenny.blogspot.com/2010/02/joan...
www.kittlingbooks.com/2013/09/poisone...

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Mary McCarty “They f### you up, your mum and dad...” is by Philip Larkin

This Be The Verse
BY PHILIP LARKIN
They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself.

Philip Larkin, "This Be the Verse" from Collected Poems. Copyright © Estate of Philip Larkin. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd.
Source: Collected Poems (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001)

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