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and the altering effect such events have on the living

from ante-natal complications and the devastating pain of miscarriage to the overwhelming joy of healthy delivery and healthy infancy

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Impossible Heat by Ciara Maguire ageing and the altering effect such'these basements that taught me to breathe; my body happening in the space between moonlight & the leather straps wrapped round an old dykes wrist gender split open like a crass piata on the sticky floor' Ciara Maguires poems explore the bright fields and dark corners of love. They are heartbreaking, sexy and addictive. Impossible Heat is a work of claustrophobia, heat, and longing. Sexual ideation extends from the mind of the speaker to colour and