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“... I remind myself of how recent that is and how much has been achieved since then. The thesis of Maggie Andrews’s somewhat troubled book is that the Women’s Institute is ‘a significant feminist organisation’. She has not set out to write a history of the WI: there have, apparently, been several of those. This is a conscious attempt to produce a ...”

“... nacred shells Montalembert’s Monks of the West Still weary, awash with hackwork to support Dead Maggie, Marjorie, Tiddy and Cecco, Her water babies, breathing ectoplasm, She watches aqualungs glow with shellac, Mindful how she loves light’s aftermath, Protozoa’s luminescent wash On the Firth of Forth; she drifts Eagerly shorewards, can almost touch ...”