Merman Matvei Yankelevich Red Groove is a different

Red Groove is a different kind of jazz book

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translated by Carole Satyamurti

the Independent and the Sunday Times

Irish Times (on The Mischievous Boy)

Merman Matvei Yankelevich Red Groove is a differentMerman, the fourth poetry collection by Jean OBrien, takes its title from the winning entry of the 2010 11 Arvon International Poetry Award, judged by Carol Ann Duffy. From this lively and imaginative opening, the poems are always alert to the comic and the everyday, even when broaching the harder subjects of life, engaging with the prospects of illness and death with characteristic grace and candour. A wonderful poem. Carol Ann Duffy on Merman Jean