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Nicholas Taylor-Collins

Literary researcher | Creative reader

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  • Two families, alike in dignity: Christina Thatcher’s ‘How to Carry Fire’

    Two families, alike in dignity: Christina Thatcher’s ‘How to Carry Fire’

    Christina Thatcher’s How to Carry Fire (Parthian, 2020) is her second collection of poetry. It’s a fierce, impassioned, and (at times) scary collection that details the persona’s two families: her US family (mother, father, brother) beset by a range of tragedies, and her newly-forming Welsh family consisting of the persona and her husband. The literary…