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Best Recent Poetry – Review Roundup | Poem

cafe By Holly Paster (Fitzcarraldo, £12.99)Beginning with a sequence of prose poems in which the speaker embarks on an anti-epic quest to open her own café, Paster’s second collection focuses on the nature of desire and despair. Comic timing remains a strength, as does her linguistic flexibility, using language as a weapon in the face

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Seven new poetry collections to read in July

“Elegy, Sing to Break the Bones / Cycle. Cycle: Sing to Break. Break to Sing.”-Philip B. Williams’ raise every voice* This month, we look at poets collaborating on a page and interacting beyond words, from Victoria Chang’s hand-stitched historical photographs to Brenda Shaughnessy’s robot libretto, joining the great ranks of poet-librettists that include contemporary poets

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