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The Poems of Seamus Heaney includes all 12 of the late poet's collections, alongside a selection of "uncollected" poems that originally appeared in newspapers, journals and magazines under different pen names.

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The author said Winn was her maiden name, and she disliked her first name of Sally and decided to use her family name Raynor as a pen name.

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Another famous cartoon - he signed them Abu, after his pen name - from that time shows a man asking another: "What do you think of editors who are more loyal than the censor?"

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The series was then handed on to an author using the pen name Aubrey Clark for three more.

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John leads a quiet life of the mind, spending his days designing puzzles under the pen name Ludwig.

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