Michael Grieve
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Regal, speared, violent
Michael Grieve reviews Rapture’s Road by Seán Hewitt (Penguin Books, 2024)
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A Harp So Strung with Rain
by Michael Grieve — It was a long forgotten folk saying / I thought, though one that neither she nor I / had any means of bringing to the open. / Neither our luck nor expertise nor will / would serve us well