What It's Like to Be Alive Yang Lian ‘Every so often

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There is nothing like a poem for transmitting a mental flavour

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What It's Like to Be Alive Yang Lian ‘Every so oftenPBS Special Commendation Autumn 2016 Deryn Rees Joness new book, What Its Like to Be Alive: Selected Poems, marks a mid career milestone in the life of this highly acclaimed writer. From the poems written in her teens and early twenties included in her exciting debut The Memory Tray to her most recent exploration of time and grief, we see the arc of development in her writing over twenty five years as she visits and revisits the concerns that are the