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Didicoy offers a window into the colourful, precarious world of a multiracial Romany family, and focuses on characters at the often-untold margins of society. Blending lyricism with formal experimentation, these poems explore what it is to belong. Clear-eyed and outspoken, Didicoy has something of the impact of a contemporary Cathy Come Home. The collection is wonderfully peopled, with an unforgettable portrait of a mother and a powerful and important depiction of life in a children's home. Writing like this, which combines real expressive skill with material which must be expressed, really reminds us what poetry is for. - Jonathan Edwards, winner of the Costa Poetry Award
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Didicoy, Karen Downs-Barton
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- Released
- 2023
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- Title
- Didicoy
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Karen Downs-Barton
- Publisher
- Smith|Doorstop Books
- Released
- 2023
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1914914376
- ISBN13
- 9781914914379
- Series
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- Didicoy offers a window into the colourful, precarious world of a multiracial Romany family, and focuses on characters at the often-untold margins of society. Blending lyricism with formal experimentation, these poems explore what it is to belong. Clear-eyed and outspoken, Didicoy has something of the impact of a contemporary Cathy Come Home. The collection is wonderfully peopled, with an unforgettable portrait of a mother and a powerful and important depiction of life in a children's home. Writing like this, which combines real expressive skill with material which must be expressed, really reminds us what poetry is for. - Jonathan Edwards, winner of the Costa Poetry Award