Lurex by Denise Riley
PBS Spring Special Commendation 2022 Victoria Kennefick both winners in the Smith/Doorstop-Poetry

both winners in the Smith/Doorstop-Poetry Business pamphlet competition

 These landscapes are charged with invisible energies and inhabited by the people

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questioning

and sometimes they’ll fall apart

Lurex by Denise Riley <b><br>PBS Spring Special Commendation 2022</b> Victoria Kennefick both winners in the Smith/Doorstop-PoetryA brilliant outing from one of the finest poets currently working in the English language. This is at once a sharply political and deeply personal book which explores just that intersection. Wide ranging, sometimes anguished, her poems are fascinating and often beautiful, and certainly more than usually thought provoking Guardian"Shes one of the best poets around."Simon Armitage"It sometimes seems that contemporary poetry divides into two sorts those