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Put a marvellous new machine in your pocket

comes and goes

and in so-doing became the greatest Lions side ever

But can the hero defeat his blood-thirsty foes

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Playing House Buthayna al-Nasiri Put a marvellous new machinePlaying House is the debut collection of poetry from Katherine Stansfield. A concise wit, a distinct voice and a unsettling view of the domestic, characterize these poems whos subjects are the ordinary as viewed through the authors satirical yet sympathetic eye. John Lennons tooth, an imaginary Canada, bees in Rhode Island, jetlag and office politics are all peculiar grist to this authors mill. She presents both historical subjects, such as Captain