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parables and tall tales
this generous selection of poetry by women with an emphasis on twentieth-century poetry in English features poets from the USA
shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize) and City of Departures (Carcanet
Janne Nummela
Poppy by Joseph Minden Nine Arches Press parables and tall talesJoseph Minden's debut collection Poppy is a research trip to the battlefields of Flanders and the Somme. It is also an ill fated visit to Penang, an echo of the Opium Wars, a tour of fragmentary family myth and a fear of familiar vampires all grimy with the trash of establishment British history. It is a place where Adlestrop meets 'Robin Hood bewitched by a leg of tandoori chicken5', and drunk Brits stumble around the Menin Gate with 'Lest We Forget'
