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Although the Austrian poet Georg Trakl was born over a century ago

but they are based on the real world of psychiatry and maximum security institutions

it celebrates the relationship between a grandmother (from Dominica) and her grandson as she tells him about her childhood adventures in the rainforest and her encounters with the mysterious Ti Bolom

Robson Green

Tan Raptures Ahmad Zein Although the Austrian poet GeorgTaking its title from the brown envelopes that strike fear into benefit claimants and the biblical Rapture, Alan Morrisons eighth collection imagines these letters as passports to a twisted Tory notion of salvation through benefit sanction. Tan Raptures is a series of verse missives from the frontline of the war against the poor and its spirit stripping weapons of food banks, poor doors and homeless spikes. Its a peoples history, from Dale Farm and