The Station Before by Linda Anderson John Wheway this refreshingly candid and entertainingly

this refreshingly candid and entertainingly provocative collection fully embraces the loss

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The Station Before by Linda Anderson John Wheway this refreshingly candid and entertaininglyLinda Anderson's much anticipated first collection travels across time and space, employing a range of voices, including historical ones. At the heart of the collection, though, is always the moment of encounter, the moment when things appear strange, before they settle into a pattern or become known. This is as true of the explorer Charles Kingsley, awed by the Caribbean landscape, as it is of the poet herself, confronted with moments of vision or