Bill Manhire's new volume, Lifted, fondly remembers a Louis Simpson poem with a typo about a Soviet dictator called Joseph Stain, and the tale of a compositor wondering who this Stan character is they're always talking about in Paradise Lost.
In 'Palais Lutetia' he writes:
You have to admire the power of the umlaut.
'Grow your cöck' just saunters past the spam detector.
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