Cycles and Lost Monkeys Tony Curtis Poems like ‘Calvaries’ lay bare

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Cycles and Lost Monkeys Tony Curtis Poems like ‘Calvaries’ lay bareIn her latest collection of poems Jo Slade continues her investigation of displacement and difference and illustrates how these experiences can be transformed through poetry, a transformation that is not so much redemptive, as prophetic. These are inquisitive, sonorous, intense poems that draw us into a world where actuality and dream collide, where loneliness, grief and resilience are innate. Informed by history and personal memory, Jo Slade propels