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drawing on seven collections that represent half a century of writing

’ – Leaf Arbuthnot

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This is a book about growing up

Off the Shelf by Carol Ann Duffy ocean vuong drawing on seven collections thatIn Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has commissioned a selection of the UK's most loved and lauded poets to each write a poem in celebration of books and bookshops the worlds they hold, the freedoms they promise, and the memories they evoke. From a basement of forgotten books to the shelves of a cramped Welsh arcade, from the poetry corner of the local bookstore to the last bookshop standing in a post