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Carol Ann Duffy: Elegies [2023] hardback BUSIN Dr Kathy Reichs is aOne of the English language's best loved living poets arrays before us here, in chronological order, her favourites among her poems on death, drawing on work written over four decades, and adds to her selection one wholly new poem. It makes for a sequence that is warm, vibrant, alive.