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Cassandra Complex

Cassandra Complex
by Jonathan Taylor
(Shoestring Press, £10)

 

“THERE is a wind-up Nostradamus/in your head. Just for tonight/let him wind down, shut curtains/on Cassandras crowding like triffids.”

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