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Review: Sweet Torture of Breathing, by Lorna Thorpe

Alison Brackenbury

Life keeps breaking into Lorna Thorpe's poems, complete with shoplifting, therapy, gravestones, sex, and the cool silver of heavenly ideals - all of it washed down with a bottle of cheap red. This is, quite simply, a roller-coaster of a book.

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