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Gwyneth Lewis

First Rain in Paradise

Publication Date: 01 Mar 2025

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First Rain in Paradise is a book about falling. Gwyneth Lewis’s highly inventive poems trace an interior landscape carved out by the trauma of childhood emotional abuse, through subsequent chronic ill health, and towards a hard-won resurrection. These accounts of living in and emerging from the dark wrestle with the angel of language. Suffering does not preclude humour and may, in...

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Arundhathi Subramaniam

The Gallery of Upside Down Women

Publication Date: 01 Mar 2025

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Kate Potts

Pretenders

Publication Date: 01 Mar 2025

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Ana Blandiana

The Shadow of Words

Publication Date: 20 Feb 2025

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Ruth Fainlight

Somewhere Else Entirely

Publication Date: 15 Nov 2018

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