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Worker in firm produces piece of poetry (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

canto

'piece of poetry' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'worker in firm' is the wordplay.
'worker' becomes 'ant' (worker is a type of ant).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'firm' becomes 'co' (a firm is a company).
'ant' put within 'co' is 'CANTO'.

'produces' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for canto that I've seen before include "Portion of poem" , "Major division of a long poem" , "Highest part in a piece of choral music -- act on (anag)" , "Poetic piece" , "Division of e.g. Dante's Inferno" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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