In most of the U.S., the rainy season comes in spring. Not California
It seems like merely a fact of life on the West Coast that summers are dry. But compared to most of the rest of the country ...
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The Image of the Doll: Tove Ditlevsen’s Worn-Out Language
If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...
New poetry: The Keelie Hawk, poems written entirely in Scots, will delight and puzzle
“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...