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There's extraordinary recall here and a wide-ranging, absorbing eloquence, an aliveness in the telling, a resilience. It's as if the act of writing both brings back the past and lays it to some kind of rest... In the end, the book perhaps asks what we all might do with our history and whether we are doomed to repeat ourselves or is there, in the act of re-writing, a process by which we lead ourselves and each other to a greater understanding? - Greta Stoddart A Wide River Divides Us is an extraordinary mixture of a collection. Witness statement, Proustian evocation of the sweetness of what's half-remembered, rueful conversations with the poet's own self: together these create a unique portrait of the artist as a survivor of troubled times. - Fiona Sampson The opening poems are rooted in memory and precise location, before the poet takes us out of time and into more fluid, unanchored places, reflecting how the past and its traumas leak into the present and inform the construction of self. A powerful debut. - Moyra Donaldson Poems full of heart, humour and even-handedness. - Cat Brogan

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Gill Barr was born in Londonderry in 1964. She taught English at comprehensive schools in Cambridgeshire and Dorset for over thirty years. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Queen’s University, Belfast and has received an award for her poetry from the Northern Ireland Arts Council. Gill’s poems have been widely published and her debut pamphlet, The Price of Violence, was Highly Commended in the 2023 Mslexia Competition and she read the pamphlet at Worlds Apart, the inaugural event at the New Gate Arts and Culture Centre in Londonderry in 2024. Gill has performed at the Bridport Literary Festival and appeared at the Exeter Literary Festival in 2019 and 2021, and at the Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2022. Gill lives in Dorset and Derry/Londonderry.

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