Janette Stowell was born and raised on the Isle of Man. She now lives in Liverpool where she teaches Creative Writing at John Moores University and Liverpool University. Poems in this collection have previously been published in Mslexia, Back to the Machine Gun, Roundyhouse, In the Red, Poetry Pool, and This Island Now – An Anthology of Manx Poets.

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