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In the anthology’s introduction, Trévien writes that ‘we wanted poems that would make us create new patterns of association in our brains where a historical period or event was concerned.’ The aim’s a lofty one, then. However, Prior and Trévien score some home runs and, given the anthology’s broad sweep – from Harry Man’s telescopingContinue reading “Claire Trévien’s and Gareth Prior’s Other Countries: Contemporary Poets Rewiring History”