A Pair of Three by Claire Crowther Penelope Shuttle Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella

Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella set themselves the intertwined tasks of exploring the long poetic line and making interventions upon what has always been implicit in their conversations

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and a skilful and varied use of form

are charged with a phenomenological inquiry

A Pair of Three by Claire Crowther Penelope Shuttle Kwame Dawes and John KinsellaClaire Crowthers fifth collection, A Pair of Three, is her most personal yet, a story of marriage to a widower. It explores a trio, wife, husband and first wife, in a love story that is moving, uplifting, often funny but rarely told. The emotional power of lyric, the narrative of ballad and the drama of modernist poems are all displayed in this distinctive sequence. Claire Crowthers previous collection, Solar Cruise, was widely praised and awarded a