The Conversation by Stephanie Norgate PRE-ORDER Laurel2022 'Being the leading poet in

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Contemporary readers are less likely to condemn a poet for hinting at or even outrightly depicting sex

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The Conversation by Stephanie Norgate PRE-ORDER Laurel2022 'Being the leading poet inIn The Conversation, Stephanie Norgate explores relationships between nature and the city, the past and present and character and writer. Shaped through both speech and storytelling, these visual, sensuous and imaginative poems celebrate friendship, even in grief, closeness in times of isolation and lockdown, and the longing to bridge gaps and find cures. Miracles are found in the everyday, in a childs sleep or a lit up house. Textiles transform into