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This is a major work of scholarship

” Luke Wright

Water, Water by Billy Collins place 'Loydell explored how we navigateIn more than sixty new poems, "America's favourite poet" (New York Times) Billy Collins writes with joy and wonder about the beauty and irony of daily life. The best poetry, he believes, begins with clarity and ends in mystery, and in Water, Water we encounter a writer endlessly astonished by the world all around. Turning his eye to the cat drinking from the swimming pool or the nurse calling your name in the waiting room or the astronaut reading