Signed Poetry Books - Tom Paulin

This was another bargain on e-Bay. It's surprising how often the author's signature on a book makes it worth less than the cover price but there can't be many people collecting C20th poets.

The curly line under the signature didn't look quite right to me when I got this one. Surely it's a little bit decorous for one as serious and phlegmatic as Tom Paulin.

So when I got a chance to speak to him I asked him. And he vouched for the provenance of this signature. 'Yes,' he said,'I do that.'