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These poems come from a special recording for the Poetry Archive:

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  1 -
  "Speech Balloon"
  
  
• 2 -
  "Purdah"
  
  
• 3 -
  "The Haunted House"
  
  
• 4 -
  "The Child Sings"
  
  
• 5 -
  "Postcards from god I"
  
  
• 6 -
  "Postcards from god II"
  
  
• 7 -
  "Scaffolding"
  
  
• 8 -
  "Question 1 / Question 2"
  
  
• 9 -
  "Eggplant"
  
  
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  10 -
  "Living Space / One Breath"
  
  
• 11 -
  "Blessing"
  
  
• 12 -
  "This room"
  
  
• 13 -
  "Honour killing"
  
  
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  14 -
  "The right word"
  
  
• 15 -
  "Kinna sona"
  
  
• 16 -
  "A place called Battle"
  
  
• 17 -
  "How to cut a pomegranate"
  
  
• 18 -
  "Women bathing"
  
  
• 19 -
  "Tow-Path"
  
  
• 20 -
  "Spire"
  
  
• 21 -
  "Leaving fingerprints"
  
  
• 22 -
  "Contract"
  
  
• 23 -
  "Hand of Fatima, Hand of Miriam"
  
  
• 24 -
  "Eye"
  
  
• 25 -
  "Whoever you are"
  
  
• 26 -
  "Talisman / CCTV"
  
  
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  27 -
  "The temporary face"
  
  
• 28 -
  "Dabba's dialogue or Tiffin-box talks"
  
  
• 29 -
  "What she said / what she said later"
  
  
• 30 -
  "What the palm reader said then"
  
  
• 31 -
  "What they think she said"
  
  
• 32 -
  "They'll say, 'She must be from another country.'"
  
  

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