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' - Muneeza Shamsie

Mark Fisher was delighted to be asked to open the first Ledbury Poetry Festival in 1997 as Labour arts minister

          it comes when it will in its own time

The Drowned Book by Sean O'Brien Helen Ivory to Italian masters of theWith an introduction by Helen Dunmore Come for a walk down the river road, For though you're all a long time dead The waters part to let us pass The way we'd go on summer nights In the times we were children And thought we were lovers. The Drowned Book is a work of memory, commemoration and loss, dominated by elegies for those the author has loved and admired. Sean O'Brien's exquisite collection is powerfully affecting, sad and often deeply funny; but