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Lockdown: Sorting the Garage - Lachlan Mackinnon
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A Pang - Lachlan Mackinnon
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swan - Andrew McMillan
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You, Very Young, in New York - Hannah Sullivan
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Guy’s and St Thomas’s - Kayo Chingonyi
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Fluke by Any Other Name Is a Flight Number - Momtaza Mehri
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Parasites - Keith Jarrett
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Afterword, London 2020 - Keith Jarrett
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Ron Butlin
B. 1949
Ron Butlin is that rare breed - a poet who takes the novel form and shows it is ripe for reinvention. Playful, haunting and moving, this is writing of the highest quality. - Ian Rankin
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Ruth Gilbert
B. 1917 D. 2016
Master of Music / Let my voice be / Clear as he dreamed it / Who fashioned me - 'The Violin Speaks', Ruth Gilbert
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Kris Hemensley
B. 1946
It's an existential act, it's vocational, a necessity, a way of working things out.