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The central sequence in M ('Manchester') responds to the murder in 2013 of Kieran Crump-Raiswell in Whalley Range, and tackles the contemporary themes of terrorism, industrial decline, and Icelandic violence. Ranging from Minorca to Cheetham Hill, Rowland's poetry covers a characteristic range of subjects and forms in what Peter Riley has termed 'an original and thoughtful handling of a major European modernist mode'.

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Herbert Lomas has long been a highly-regarded poet, translator, and reviewer. Ted Hughes described his poems as marvellous, prismatic, penetrating, visionary talismans. A Casual Knack of Living gathers together Lomas's nine published collections, together with some previously unpublished poems, and thus brings his poetry back into print.

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The title, A Sinner Saved by Grace, comes from the inscription on a lonely and isolated gravestone the poet came across while walking on the moors above his home in the Calder Valley. And indeed, the whole collection is a reaffirmation of the powers of nature, language and music by which the poet finds himself surrounded in his Pennine home.

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Michael Haslam sees his job as brewing strong lyric from the mash of his ordinary life: working the mills, the dole, walking the hills as he goes, composing a liberal philosophy of the tea-break.

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Stories by Anthony Cassidy, Penelope Feeny, Ann Harrison, Elizabeth Iddon, Rosemary Jenkinson, Kathleen Jones, Margaret Lesser, Kath McKay, Carole O'Reilly, William Park, Steve Ryan, Tracey Sinclair, David Swann, Sue Tresidder and Heather Watson.

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