It is 1890, and three dark terraces down the docks of Victorian Cardiff are to be levelled to make way for a new square. A disquieting fin-de-si cle ghost story in verse, Docklands explores grey worlds at the edges of the eye, conjuring late-Victorian Cardiff's hustling, booming, sullied docks and the horrors they conceal. A study of the violences perpetrated against wives and daughters, and of patterns of grief and longing, this disturbing sequence...
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