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At first, these extraordinary poems may unsettle and disturb, but the next reading could be one of rapture and astonishment; it all hinges on your point of view. Like the optical illusion of the maiden and the crone, you can only see one image at a time; the brain deciding which is the figure and which the background. It is a book that acts out its own subjects – dualities, ambiguities, boundaries – through physical dislocation, through patterns of interference. This is a collage of many voices: eager or dispassionate, unreliable or matter-of-fact – depending, as with everything else, on your…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2016Penguin Random House · 9781473523210
- Other · English · 2016Penguin Random House · 64 pages · 9781910702024
Poetry (poetic works by one author)Maldon, Battle of, England, 991PoetryEnglish poetryScottish authorsBataille de Maldon, Angleterre, 991PoésiePoésie anglaise






