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Now the three women wait on the Libyan shore to board a crowded migrant boat heading for Europe

the poems have an elemental force that has remained undiminished through the centuries

'Here's something I know to be true

Paul Bailey: At the Jerusalem [2019] hardback Condition:New Icon Books will donate 50p'A very funny book, but never jeering, full of pity, but unsentimentally harsh with the tragedy of old age which institutional kindness cannot cushion' Financial Times. Following the death from leukaemia of her daughter, Celia, Mrs Gadny goes to live with her sullen stepson Henry. But she finds little affection or contentment either with him, or with his selfish wife Thelma, or with their ungrateful children. She is sent to an old people's home, 'The