Withdrawals by James Byrne Isabel Bermudez just as the poets have

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Withdrawals by James Byrne Isabel Bermudez just as the poets haveEach brilliantly crafted take on withdrawal here enacts the fug of addiction, the moodily out of focus, the slightly out of synch, the liminal out of control: whether backing away from childhood memories, from the rutting yard of a local vigilante with his national flag, or even from the sea form that separates Britain in its withdrawal from Europe. Early engagements with tobacco are a metaphor for the mordant ghosts that have fanged us all. The