In the Shadow of the Yew by John Barnie Moya Cannon Douglas Dunn has won the

Douglas Dunn has won the Somerset Maugham Award

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and the paintings of Renoir can also be detected under the surface of Alain-Fournier’s verse

A non-narrative

In the Shadow of the Yew by John Barnie Moya Cannon Douglas Dunn has won theIn a tight sequence of 33 poems, In the Shadow of the Yew, John Barnie leads us through the cemetery of hopes (Conrad). A layered monologue in a distinctive voice that is incisive and deeply questioning, Barnie asks whether the suffering of humanity and the suffering we inflict renders our species a curse. better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun. says the writer of Ecclesiastes, and