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his poems themselves become vehicles for change
Here poems vary between quick family portraits
'The Hiding Room' does not look back nostalgically
We were sad also to announce the death on 14 March 2006 of the pioneering Iraqi author Mahdi Issa al-Saqr
Handling Alan Sillitoe a wave liftsThe poems in Handling, Jack Thackers debut gathering, display an extraordinary gift for describing the sights and sounds of farming life through an exact and tactile evocation of daily work, implements and activities. Childhood memories and seasonal tasks, such as planting vegetables, shearing sheep, and ploughing fields, are handled in a language that is at once strange, familiar, and as rhythmically measured as it is inventive. The descriptive poems
