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The Night Shift Habib Abdulrab Sarori Although their relationship was oneWelcome to the poetry of the night. The graveyard shift. The kingdom of the undead. The Night Shift is a celebration of the moon lit life of the animal kingdom, the nocturnal hungers that wake when the sun goes down. It is also a book about the midnight world of insomniacs, lovers, long distance drivers, breast feeding mothers, bouncers, poets, drunks and shift workers. Representing the work of over fifty poets, including W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Paul