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    ​My Reading

    Three books I would take with me to a desert island:

     

    ​The Bible – King James’ Version
    Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
    The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry,  edited by Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair
    
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    Gems of fiction too precious to part with:
    
    The Dubliners by James Joyce
    Collected Stories of Vladimir Nabokov
    In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
    Jesus’ Son and Train Dreams by Denis Johnson
    Ship Fever by Andrea Barrett
    The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
    L'Étranger par Albert Camus
    Bad Blood by Lorna Sage
    On the Black Hill by Bruce Chatwin
    Morfina by Szczepan Twardoch
    Fado by Andrzej Stasiuk
    Amongst Women by John McGahern
    The Cairo Trilogy (Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street) by Naguib Mahfouz
    
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    Poets who never leave my bedside stand:
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    Cavafy, Lorna Crozier, Victor Hugo, Czeslaw Milosz, Al Purdy, Wislawa Szymborska, Adam Zagajewski, Jack Gilbert, Alice Oswald, W.H. Auden, Les Murray, Robert Frost and Philip Larkin

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