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Wednesday, 23 March 2011

the canal

Another short review up at 'BookGeeks', this time of Lee Rourke's novel The Canal:

http://www.bookgeeks.co.uk/2011/03/20/the-canal-by-lee-rourke/

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oliver dixon: First book of poems 'Human Form' published in 2013 by Penned in the Margins. New book 'Incompletion' published April 2025 by Vole Books. Poems and reviews have appeared in PN Review, Poetry Review, Poetry London, Tears in the Fence, New Welsh Review and World Literature Today. Philosophy guide 'Who the Hell is Friedrich Nietzsche?' published in 2019. I'm a SEND teacher and Creative Writing tutor based in Hertfordshire, as well as being a PhD student at Royal Holloway, researching British modernist poetry.

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