The smell of the underground – Tobias Hill’s Nocturne in Chrome and Sunset Yellow
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Alice Oswald’s Memorial
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Through a glass, darkly – Gail Ashton’s The Other Side of Glass
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A terrible case of the shrinks – AF Harrold’s Logic and the Heart
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The vibrator in the drawer – Leontia Flynn’s Profit and Loss
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Shifting Sands: Jo Shapcott’s Of Mutability
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Wendy Cope – Family Values
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Shakespeare’s Sonnets – Faber and Faber – Arden – Touch Press
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Tom Paulin – Love’s Bonfire
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Katharine Towers – the floating man
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Poor Rude Lines 