From the London Zoo to an Essex village and the Arctic Circle, Greenlaw explores elements of place-the child-hood landscapes we leave behind, those we travel toward, and those that we believe to be missing from our lives. Greenlaw's restless, inquisitive tone builds to make Minsk a hypnotic collection from one of the leading poets of her generation. Camel Hair Every few years it becomes a question of backbone. Anhedonia, not love of winter but a loss of the feel of the world, a way ahead of the cold. Even the cells ...
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From the London Zoo to an Essex village and the Arctic Circle, Greenlaw explores elements of place-the child-hood landscapes we leave behind, those we travel toward, and those that we believe to be missing from our lives. Greenlaw's restless, inquisitive tone builds to make Minsk a hypnotic collection from one of the leading poets of her generation. Camel Hair Every few years it becomes a question of backbone. Anhedonia, not love of winter but a loss of the feel of the world, a way ahead of the cold. Even the cells refuse to talk to one another. As black and white as a two-hour wait on the kerb of a six-lane arterial road, in a secondhand straw-coloured Dior coat, for the last bus and its overload to accelerate past out of its own well-oiled backsplash.
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