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There were two ways to respond to that unbearable reality, wrote Rose Ausländer thirty years later, remembering the Chernovtsy ghetto under the Nazis. Either one could despair entirely, or one could occupy a different, spiritual reality. And while we waited for death, there were those of us who dwelt in dreamwords — our traumatic home amidst our homelessness. To write was to live.

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Dinah Hawken won the 1987 Commonwealth Poetry Prize with her first book.

In this stunning and unforgettably elegiac book, female sensuality and spirituality are celebrated, standing together rather than split the way Christian culture has encouraged. It is a journey of discovery using very precise language, myths and contemporary writing to question our spiritual condition.

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"Don Coles makes poems which are attentive, tender, flexible, offhand but exact — intricate journeys, which are a joy to follow." Margaret Atwood

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Poetry Book Society Recommendation

Jacqueline Brown's third collection is a chronological journey from childhood through motherhood to middle age, tracing the unfolding of womanhood with a sensitivity and truthfulness encountered in her previous works.

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In this, his fifth collection, Markham reveals the full range of his obsessions with travel and the search for hinterland, with history and the challenge of contemporary politics, with a multinational language which both liberates and 'imprisons' its user.

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