Here & Thereafter by Alice Miller James McDermott deeply satisfying book from a

deeply satisfying book from a writer at the top of her game

Tishani Doshi's poetry bestows power on the powerless

In 1960 many of France’s leading writers and intellectuals – including Simone de Beauvoir

Mary wrote her first poem when she was four and writing poems has been her passion and life support system ever since

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Here & Thereafter by Alice Miller James McDermott deeply satisfying book from aPersonal and political collide in Alice Miller's fourth collection, as she compares present day Berlin, where she is a new mother, with the city her German Jewish grandmother was forced to leave. Darting through bedrooms and empires, whispers and wars, bureaucracy and origin stories, these unpredictable poems evoke Mary Shelley, visitors to Antarctica, and an inventor of the atom bomb, to ask if a new beginning is ever possible. How many buildings and