112:- which conjures up quite so effectively this peculiar inter-zone between the behemoth of the city and the hinterland of the country. And on top of all this there is the wrenching portrayal of a family at odds with itself in the most violent fashion, rendered without cant or sentimentality."
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is short on dropouts and introverts; it's more a world of sleazy service stations, hot-dog vans and skinheads along the Hog's Back, dangerous sailors hot from the
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Muckle has published further novels, short story and poetry collections and a critical work on
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The Poetry of Saying: British Poetry and Its
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Little White Bull: British fiction in the
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Little White Bull: British
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271:The Failure of Conservatism in Contemporary Poetry
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41:, moving on to Grafton Books (later subsumed into
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322:'Hazlitt's Paroxysms' at Jacket Magazine
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