Clearing a NameIn this collection Morley undertakes a personal journey, re visiting his Roma roots in and around Blackpool and introduces the reader to a language which is deeply emotional and intensely poetic a strange new language [which] is haunting, like coming across a language familiar in another life. Liz Goddard, Raw Edge Also by David Morley Releasing Stone 0 946407 49 5 64 pp 4. 50 Mandelstam Variations 0 946407 60 6 68 pp 5. 95

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