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by poets who wrote ‘for the drawer’ and by later writers who have tried to understand the war and its long-term effects on Russian society

Grace Nichols’ poetry has a gritty lyricism that addresses the transatlantic connections central to the Caribbean-British experience

Birds in November by Daragh Breen #PBSTikTok an intellectual range and dexterityFrom the Purgatorial state of the epigraph and an opening sequence that riffs on the Navigatio Santi Brendani epic, through Novembers titular birds flitting in and out of existence, to the trawler that seems determined to find some sort of escape at the collections finale, these poems examine various ghost states on which life and death, light and dark hinge. There are also encounters with Armstrong returning from the Moon, Virginia Woolf entering its