The Bell TowerAcerbic, precise and very funny, Pamela Crowes poems explore home life and relationships in a delightfully forthright voice. Secret frustrations and anxieties are aired and private fantasies brought into the light, as odes blur into diatribes and psychodramas become love poems. Woven throughout The Bell Tower is a love of Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath, Wendy Cope and above all Helen Fieldings Bridget Jones. These are fierce, acutely observed poems that

He lives in Brooklyn

the greatest poet of the twentieth century in any language

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has forsworn his life of indolence to lead a small band of villagers in resisting the invading forces

Cutting My Mother's Hair depicts contemporary women in various stages of domestic hell and interrogates their familial and social inheritance of patriarchy

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‘poetry can resist only by cultivating an attachment to human fragility

Residual Synonyms for the Name of God performs the proliferation of language and culture in our late capitalist moment as a residual structure of a religious past

His previous books include [i]Daily Racism: The Press and Black People in Britain[/i] (co-authored with Paul Gordon)

Harold Sonny Ladoo was found dead soon after the publication of his classic novel

his work has been translated into over forty different languages

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