GABRIELE NEHER draws attention to an astoundingly skilled Flemish painter who defied the notion that women cannot paint like men
Complex questions about being proved right
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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