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The centrepiece of Silent Highway is the title-poem which celebrates the role of the river Thames in the life of London. It is written as a sequence that looks at history and the present: from Pocahontass voyage to the arrival of the Windrush bringing immigrants from Jamaica, the mysterious death of Roberto Calvi and the Marchioness disaster.

Silent Highway

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    A Paperback / softback by Anthony Howell

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      Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/11/2014
      ISBN13: 9780856464522, 978-0856464522
      ISBN10: 085646452X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The centrepiece of Silent Highway is the title-poem which celebrates the role of the river Thames in the life of London. It is written as a sequence that looks at history and the present: from Pocahontass voyage to the arrival of the Windrush bringing immigrants from Jamaica, the mysterious death of Roberto Calvi and the Marchioness disaster.

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