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Few first collections in recent years have made the impact of Kate Clanchys award-winning <i>Slattern</i>, which gained her a reputation as a poet of great immediacy and wit. In this new book her range is extended dramatically. <i>Samarkand</i> is both a darker and a more sunlit collection than its predecessor. Inside, the reader will find surreal elegies; love poems of every humour; grim episodes from colonial history and meditations on home and distance as well as some practical advice on having sex with angels all delivered with the effortless musicality of phrase and formal panache that are fast becoming Clanchys trademarks.