Fiona Benson: Ephemeron [2022] paperback ARTAZ and Grampa is up to

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Stevie Nicks and Elton John to Miles Davis

THE AGE OF EMPIRE covers the area of Western Imperialism and examines the forces that swept the world to the outbreak of World War One- and shaped modern society

from late 1954 through to 1963

Later on in the war

Fiona Benson: Ephemeron [2022] paperback ARTAZ and Grampa is up to*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST SINGLE POEM* The poems in Ephemeron deal with the short lived and transitory whether it's the brief, urgent lives of the first section, 'Insect Love Songs', the abrupt, anguished, physical and emotional changes during secondary school, as remembered in 'Boarding School Tales', or parenting's day by day shifts through love and fear, hurt and healing, in 'Daughter Mother'. The long central section,