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These are poems of very thoughtful observation. Glimpses of the natural world, they are also more than that because, together and variously, they raise issues of interrelationship and belonging. Barbara Orłowska-Westwood exhibits a fine delicacy of touch, placing specific moments and images within the larger context of their value and meaning ac
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