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Polley achieves both a directness of expression and unsentimental intimacy of address that only a poet of very considerable gifts could even attempt
they echo and respond to each other making individual experiences into collective rage
Daniel Sluman
     faithful to someone they used to know
free-flowing
Life Has Become More Cheerful by Aidan Semmens Carcanet Press Polley achieves both a directnessAidan Semmens is a poet who has always been fearless in confronting the plight of the world with its disturbed ways and this volume is no exception. The mordantly titled Life Has Become More Cheerful is a chilling quote by Stalin after the horrors of the Great Purge in 1938 and sets the tone for what is to come. The first poem announces 1917, the start of the Russian Revolution, and from there follows its aftermath, interspersed with passages from the
