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Beautifully honed
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INCISIVE: Jan Woolf
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Stormlight
by Jan Woolf
(Riversmeet Press, £10)
THIS latest collection by Jan Woolf is like a Swiss Army penknife. Each is of different length and intention but all gleam with an incisiveness that will impress even the most casual reader.
There are arguably two themes which unite this compact literary tool. The first is the presence of the political and the profound lying just underneath the surface of seemingly mundane human encounters which Woolf digs away at.
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