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an urban-like array of gridded broken walls and shattered foundations

Nick Frost has lit up our screens for decades with his perfectly observed

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The Asking XMAS NR one for each monthJane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. In an era of algorithm, assertion and induced distraction, Jane Hirshfields poems bring a much needed awakening response, actively countering narrowness. The Asking includes work from her earlier