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    Let Out the Djinn
    Let Out the Djinn
    Let Out the Djinn
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    Let Out the Djinn

    By Jane Aldous

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    There is a double meaning in the title to this debut collection from Jane Aldous – Jinn was her family nickname, and writing poetry feels like letting out her wild, mischievous spirit.

    For Jane, poetry is all about listening, and she invites us to listen to the imagined worlds of hunter-gatherers, star-gazers, mythical beings, wild creatures, the living and the dead, and the real world of a gay woman growing up in the 70s.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArachne Press
    Release dateMar 27, 2020
    ISBN9781913665005
    Let Out the Djinn
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    Jane Aldous

    Jane Aldous is an Edinburgh based poet. Some of Jane's poems have been published in literary magazines such as Northwords Now and Southlight. She's been commended in poetry competitions and she won the Wigtown Prize in 2012. Her first collection, 'Let Out the Djinn' was published by Arachne in 2019, and other poems have been anthologised several times by Arachne Press.

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