Michael Ondaatje’s latest collection is impossibly good. It is the work of a mature poet at the zenith of his talent. T. S. Eliot wrote, “The mature poet, in the operations of his mind, works like the chemist. He is aware, not that he wants to say
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When she lost her best friend to suicide, the author wrote about her experience – "I was heartbroken," she says, "there's something universal about grief".