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Under the Rock: The Poetry of a Place
by Benjamin Myers
(Elliott & Thompson, £14.99)
TEN years ago, novelist Benjamin Myers relocated from London to Mytholmroyd in Yorkshire’s Calder Valley with his wife, the writer Adelle Stripe.
“One only moves to London when either young or wealthy,” he notes in his sensual new work of non-fiction, “and now we were neither.”
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