1. a) berates / rebates    b) waste/sweat   c) claimed/decimal

2. a) band     b) will

3. Tamworth

4. Oils

5. quire

6. prayers

7. Aramaic

8.  Rainy Days and Mondays

9. Ronald Reagan

10. He didn’t exist – the poems were a hoax on the publisher, written as a spoof on the current fashionable trends in poetry.