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I heard their voices last night

Is the sun afraid of dying

introduced and translated by Tom Cheesman and John Goodby

Kith Vénus Khoury-Ghata Michael Rosen is one ofLove, sex, boats and friendship. And yet Jo Bells second poetry collection, Kith, is about so much more, as these bold and generous poems interweave bigger questions of place, identity and community and what these mean to us, here and now. Delighting in the belting, beautiful turn of phrase, Jo Bells poems are lyrical and joyous, but always precise and clear as birdsong. They take us the long way home, plot histories along the route of backwaters, and