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Punch-up at the Poetry Reading

Joanna Kavenna

  • The Monkey's Mask by Dorothy Porter

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Joanna Kavenna’s The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule is published by Viking. She currently holds a writing fellowship at St John’s College, Cambridge.

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