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Review: Collected Poems 1972 - 2024, by Kevin Crossley-Holland

M.C. Caseley, for Stride Magazine, January 2026

Many of the poems here explore the qualities of light, but here there is a new desire to approach the numinous, the legendary, the evidence of previous existences with humility and, as the poem says,’grace’.

Almost liturgical in its rhythms, this seems a salutary end to a lifetime of crafting careful, thoughtful lyrics.

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