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The Night Trotsky Came to Stay by McVety, Allison

£7.95
9781902382906
Paperback

Main winner in The Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition 2006

'She is a poet willing to take risks and able to challenge readers at many levels -- emotional, spiritual and technical -- through her exceptional and acute powers of evocation. Holub's concept of 'serious play' comes to mind when reading her poems.' Peter Carpenter

“Sensuous detail, intellectual curiosity and an echoing, confident music all make this a fully-imagined poetic world.” Jane Draycott

“The poem, The Night Trotsky came to stay suggests one of those poetic re-workings of a minor historical event, in Allison McVety’s hands we’re in an entirely different, witty and weird world.” Anne-Marie Fyfe

“Well wrought and distinctive, the personal made universal par excellence.” Susan Utting