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Language

I shall poke my finger in the holes between words; I shall return to wrestle with the grammar of small things: my daughters' toys and papers offered on the cloth, a chipped......

A Thousand Years Seen Differently

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the womb with a view Charlotte Moore FLESH AND BLOOD by Michele Roberts Virago, £14.99, pp. 175 M y mother was my first great love, she was my paradise garden.' So says Fred-......