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Michael Foley

Poet and non-fiction author. Foley's 2010 book The Age of Absurdity was praised in The Guardian as "My favourite book of 2010…energetic, witty and erudite."

Poet and non-fiction author. Foley's 2010 book The Age of Absurdity was praised in The Guardian as "My favourite book of 2010…energetic, witty and erudite."

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