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   THE RUGGED BLACK OF ANGERThe rugged black of angerHas an uncertain smile-border.The transition from one kind to anotherMay be love between neighbour and neighbour;Or natural death; or discontinuanceBecause so small is spaceThe extent of kind must be expressed otherwise;Or loss of kind when proof of no uniquenessStrikes the broadening edge and discourages.Therefore and therefore […]

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Introduction by Jack Blackmore Trent Editions, 2020. £12.00. 210 pp. ISBN 9781842331699. A new edition of the 1930 collection, Jonathan Cape, London  In April 1929 Laura Riding, then aged 28, stepped off the the window-ledge of the London flat she shared with Robert Graves, breaking her spine. Just fifteen months later Jonathan Cape published Poems: A […]