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	The Book of Demons By Barry MacSweeney
Buy this book now from Poetry Book Society Recommendation 'Angry, fierce, unruly verse that does what English verse has supposedly forgotten how to do visions of demons that haunted the author's long recovery from alcoholism' - steven waling, City Life. Barry MacSweeney (1948-2000) died after losing his fight against alcholism. £7.95 Paperback 1 85224 414 3. 112pp. 1997. Subjects: Avantgarde/Experimental , Death and Bereavement , Love Poetry , Political/Social
Title now out of print Other books by Barry MacSweeney: Wolf Tongue