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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Small gift message in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Tanis MacDonald in HOLDING GROUND manages to balanceprecision clarity and narrative drive with a startling and aptsense of imagery. The end result is a rich and engrossingdebut – well worth the wait.- Robert PriestHOLDING GROUND is a book of jaunty wit and playfulreworkings of history’s lost women expertly realized ina myriad of poetic voices and forms. But when her poeticground is grief and loss Tanis MacDonald’s craft soars -and takes us earthward again to re-learn the lessons oflove in a life that is “engraved with dying” to re-learn thatour closest connections can both wound and heal us.- Maureen HynesIn HOLDING GROUND Tanis MacDonald explores the imagi-native depths of contemporary womanhood. Sharply wittyyet abidingly tender these poems speak eloquently of loveand mourning laundry and gardening and the hundredother difficult lessons of being human.-Catherine Hunter