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The Vanishing Act (& The Miracle After) is an existential meditation on grief, the kind which pins you down and minimizes you. The first half of the collection, The Vanishing Act, captures the ruminations of a mind which feels limited physically and spiritually. The imagery in this section intermingles magic and violence as the speaker confronts systemic issues as a middle-class woman, a person of colour, and a survivor of abuse.The second section, (& The Miracle After), offers a fresh perspective on recovery. In this section, the speaker revisits images of bodily harm. Objects previously used for violence are brought back to a state of benign normalcy. As spring arrives, the speaker contemplates renewal and the paradoxical nature of taking agency of her life, while knowing the act of survival is made possible only because of miraculous intervention.

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An Anthology of Poetry for Children illustrated by Roland Pym. Poems range from Nursery Rhymes to nonsense verse by Lear and Carroll, as well as classics by Keats, Tennyson, RL Stevenson, WB Yeats, Auden and Betjeman.

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In this book the author describes the way her garden evolved and how, without meaning to do so, she let it take over her life. She suggests moving away from planning, regimentation and gardening with the mentality of a stamp-collector. Frequently funny and always stimulating, she writes of the alchemy of gardens, of the 19th-century plant-collectors and plant illustrators and of the gardening philosophers, all fertilizing great thoughts along with their hollyhocks. She won the 1988 Sinclair Consumer Press Garden Writer of the Year Award.

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Biddesden is the family home bought in 1931 by Bryan Guinness (Lord Moyne) and his first wife Diana Mitford. Mirabel Guinness, youngest of Lord Moyne's 11 children, compiles a collection of family recipes regularly used at Biddesden.

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