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She’d been dreading this moment for weeks. Liz Reardon knew exactly what was waiting behind the door in front of her. She’d planned to avoid it, but ...

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Fiction – English-Language Winner

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Conyer Clayton’s third poetry collection, the lake-shaped excuse, is a book about grief and so, like most grief books, it is ultimately a book about love. The voices of a long-dead mother and a still-living daughter merge and twin and separate in a series of long poems that mirror yet fall apart from one another, much like the speakers’ lives. In these poems ...

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If there’s one thing Spoken Word, or Slam Poetry, has given us, it’s the current. The now. With cadence and ...