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This Is Not An Epiphany - cover

This Is Not An Epiphany

Tom Branfoot

Publisher: The Poetry Business

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Summary

Tom Branfoot's This is Not an Epiphany examines inner and outer landscapes that have become inhospitable; where people are 'burnt / by business as usual'. This collection is attentive to shifting landscapes where warehouses spring up on empty land, and the incremental austerities that constitute our living; its lyric absorbs the shocks and crises of survival within them.
Available since: 06/01/2023.
Print length: 36 pages.

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