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‘Her lucid and quiet
writing on The Poetry School Blog
Asia and Latin America
as magical entity
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Tenderfoot by Chris Beckett Aidan Semmens ‘Her lucid and quietA Tenderfoot is a novice, someone unaccustomed to hardship. Here, he is a white boy growing up in 1960s Ethiopia, a place he loves even as he learns his own privilege and foreignness. Later he hears rumours of a famine in the mountains and imagines a boy his own age living through it, surviving on angry couplets. Years after, he sees this famine boy grown up and questions him. A sequel to Ethiopia Boy, Beckett's celebrated first Carcanet collection,
