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and it invites the reader to stretch with it

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Emily Hinshelwood was born in London

Polishing The Evidence Abdul Rahman al-Majedi wrapped around the forms ofIn Polishing the Evidence, Cecilia McGovern returns in many poems to her roots, as a child involved in the seasonal grind of farm work in Mayo. This closeness to earth is a reminder of the struggle for survival of previous generations, a struggle never referred to directly by anybody, that results for her in an ambivalent relationship with the landscape. The reticence about the past includes and is partly a consequence of the loss of the Irish