The Kabul Olympics by John McAuliffe anthology In her finest book to

In her finest book to date

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The Kabul Olympics by John McAuliffe anthology In her finest book toThe Kabul Olympics is a book of impossible places, from the imagined Kabul of the title poem to City of Trees which conjures an alternate, parallel Manchester in the aftermath of the Arena bombing, from a plane spiralling ever upwards into the eye of a storm in Godsend to the becalmed travels of The Harbours, a sequence which reflects on nationalism and border crossing. Many of these poems find themselves in the dark, on journeys whose destinations