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"In ‘Look to the Crocus’ Marion McCready truly and vitally does dwell in poetry and produces a work of both necessity, illumination and efflorescence as well as spiritual and aesthetic pleasure." ~ Richie McCaffery, The Bottle Imp, Association for Scottish Literature
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