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estrangement and edgy humour for which she has become known

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and selections of his poems have been translated and published in Holland and in Italy

Paula Meehan’s extraordinary new collection is both a controlled experiment with the challenge of form and

Slant Light A Herring Famine weather changesIn her first full length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the voiceless speaks, laments and sings from the fresh voice of a spring wood to a colony of bats or a grove of ancient sequioa trees. Unafraid of using scientific language and teamed with a clear eye, Westcotts poems are drawn directly from the natural world,