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Voyager: Constellations of Memory
Elaine Margolin is startled by this author’s ability to meld past and present, the personal and the political, but above all her concern with comprehending the mindset of perpetrator-turned-confessor
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The Otter Book
Hitherto the provider of pelts for gloves, and the bane of fishers, now a bellweather for river water quality, these shortlived, blubberless, territorial mammals continue to fascinate, as Vicky Mackenzie writes of this accessible monograph of the Eurasian otter
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Poem by Graham Mort
Poem on labour, pride, dawn and elevation, by Graham Mort
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Poem by Fiona Cameron
Setting Down Strata we are ‘day safe’ in the gardens we say to each other nodding ….in tense agreement but when you dry your long black hair in thick summer dusk & you sit in the rose garden & quietly call us down the soft lawns to listen to stories …..to pre …
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Two poems by Charlie Bird
Philip’s Photos Philip arrives at the bar at the end of the Saturday rush. He’s tall as a tree. Beneath a tired grey suit, I glimpse a dusky pink cashmere cardigan. Posh as my South African granny, he asks, ‘Do you play netball?’ People at 6 then 4 look up. ‘I did,’ I say. ‘Wing attack.’ ‘And now?’ …
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And… A Memoir of My Mother: Negotiating Personal and Racial Identity in Wales
For Amy McCauley, this memoir about colonialism’s violence and its cultural and linguistic erasure, conveys the fragmentation caused by childhood trauma, but does not fully process that trauma
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It Is OK to Feel Relief When Somebody Dies
Rose Rouse reflects on her mother’s death and inherited ideas of grief, both collective and personal
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Night Terrors: Troubled Sleep and the Stories We Tell about It
Leah Larwood is fascinated by a nonfiction title that confronts the author’s own strange and frightening night-time encounters, and the scientific and …
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The Incandescent Threads
Özgür Uyanık is enthralled by an astonishing blend of history, trauma, spirituality, love and the paranormal, wrapped in a family saga
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If I could write my poem into life
A poem by Elinor Clark about the traumatic loss of a much-loved sister, re-creation and recovery
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