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The Blackstock Children: Poems - Stokes, Lara (Editor), and Stokes, Denis
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Another poem collection from Denis Stokes, a poet that surprises at every turn. The poems involve an engagement between Canada and Ireland/England/Scotland/Wales. Part One involves family background, first experiences. Part Two is a meditation on child poverty through the fictionalized imagining of the writing of the Christmas Carol. It is a protest poem about the lack of effort directed towards Campaign 2000, addressed to Dickens's son (and us, the inheritors of a social vision...alas). Part Three involves the loss of ...

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The Blackstock Children: Poems 2021, Independently Published

ISBN-13: 9798787139464

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