Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel
but as a continuum that runs through (and even underpins) our society—not as a medical ‘condition’
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Dearly Fantasy Dickens is not a prerequisiteThe collection of a lifetime from the prodigious novelist and poet, now available as a paperback. By turns moving, playful, and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens, and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of