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Devika Brendon Reviews ‘Fitzroy North 3068’ by Yvette Henry Holt

These poems are a cornucopia of sage honey and wry asides. Words as sharp and close up and deadly as shivs slid into the underbelly of the reader, rearranging the way we see the worlds in which we live.

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