Signs Round a Dead BodySigns Round a Dead Body is the eagerly awaited follow up to Deryn Rees Jones's widely acclaimed first collection, The Memory Tray. Her humour, sharp technique and preoccupation with the dilemmas of women are as apparent as ever, but there is now a more intense personal focus. Love, in all its permutations, suffuses this book, and sensuous details abound: from poems like 'Making Out' and 'From His Coy Mistress', about the fears and vacillations of

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It keeps to its themes of violence and transformation

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