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Wagstaff walked barefoot from Jamaica, and a number of her outpourings have
lassoed themselves around her crenulations there. Veritably she is a centaur who tries to
recognize something mythological whiffling through the fog of an uncorked July,
and quite often retreats into the grykes and cleats of her tenuous marriage. The two ‘Belgian roses’ appended here are
both concerned with unexpected adultery and the coast of Greenland: her twinned
secret asylums. ‘The Beating of the
Demons’ displays a grimace of brazenly elaborate colour and depth which appears
nowhere else in her egg-box. Her
publications include: The Shadows of the
Mandarin (Jubjub Books, 1979), The
Glaciers (Beltane Umbrella, 1983) and Just
Like the Horizon (Thamescape Press, 1991).
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My dear, I am writing to you in the Lord's name to tell you how happy i am to see my friend Dr Wagstaff and her work mentioned. Also that if you send me your bank details i will transfer in an unspeakably large amount of money. Blessings upon you and your most holy work.
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