Books of the Year 2022 / Part One

Contributors to The Lonely Crowd choose the books they have most enjoyed this year. Part Two follows next week.

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‘Dancing As Fast As I Can’ / Eleanor Hooker

Legion is a sequence of origin poems using the honeybee as a metaphor for the poet and a sting in childhood as the impetus to write. Michael Hartnett’s poem ‘A Necklace of Wrens’ is perhaps one of …

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