Chris Jones
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Down Time
by Chris Jones — You used to joke you were a champion sleeper / a heavyweight, the kind who’d knuckle down / to eight hour shifts without so much as a peep; / reel wide-screen dreams before you drifted round
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A man was shot not far from where we live
Emma Simon reviews Little Piece of Harm by Chris Jones (Longbarrow, 2020)