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    Playing with Fire
    Playing with Fire
    Playing with Fire
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    Playing with Fire

    By Grevel Lindop

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    A dazzling blend of intellectualism and eroticism, this poetry collection employs sumptuous, sensory language to explore a wide range of subjects—including a blood-drinking Tibetan deity, lemons in Robert Graves' garden, and an East London strip club. By boldly traversing the boundary between the erotic and the sexual, these love poems are both passionate and strikingly original.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarcanet Press Ltd.
    Release dateApr 28, 2006
    ISBN9781847778659
    Playing with Fire
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    Grevel Lindop

    Grevel Lindop was born in Liverpool, educated at Oxford and now lives in Manchester, where he is a freelance writer. His books include A Literary Guide to the Lake District; The Opium-Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey; Travels on the Dance Floor; and Charles Williams: The Third Inkling, as well as editions of Chatterton, De Quincey and Robert Graves’s The White Goddess. Luna Park is his seventh volume of poems.

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