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Ben Downing

Ben Downing is the author of Calligraphy Shop (Zoo Press), a book of poems.

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A review of Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age by D. J. Taylor.

Remembering the Persian expatriate and London editor of the Paris Review.

On Maurice Baring: Letters, edited by Jocelyn Hillgarth & Julian Jeffs.

A reexamination of the writer on his would-be centenary.

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The Calligraphy Shop

by Ben Downing

$14.95

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