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- Published 20191105
- ISBN: 9781925773804
- Extent: 264pp
- Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook
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Ella Jeffery
Ella Jeffery’s first collection of poems, Dead Bolt, won the Puncher & Wattmann Prize for a First Book of Poetry in 2019 and will...
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