Pound's poetry, one admitted, having a lot of charm, initially (9)

I believe the answer is:

pulverise

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'pound's' is the definition.
('pound'->'pulverize' is in my internal thesaurus and 'ize'->'ise')

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(Other definitions for pulverise that I've seen before include "Repulsive (anag.)" , "Beat to a pulp" , "defeat" , "Crush thoroughly in repulsive manner" , "Crush thoroughly in a repulsive way" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.

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