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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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