Towards a General Theory of Love by Clare Shaw Liverpool University Press Dare-Gale Press

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— Ian Seed

Cuba has always attracted the passionate sympathies of poets and revolutionaries

so that much of his best poetry reads like a translation from elsewhere

the editor

Towards a General Theory of Love by Clare Shaw Liverpool University Press Dare-Gale PressClare Shaw's fourth collection Towards a General Theory of Love shows that poetry can say as much as about who we are and especially how we feel as psychology. They also feed each other. Harry Harlow's famous experiments on baby monkeys changed the course of psychology. They proved that we need care, contact and love and they inflicted profound and lasting suffering on their subjects. Clare Shaw's poems in Towards a General Theory of Love are driven