We Play Here by Dawn Watson Nancy Gaffield as these combine to displace

as these combine to displace a burgeoning identity rather than overtly defining one

[…] His cosmopolitanism is neither idealized nor fetishised

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ordinary inhabitants of a great city and beyond

We Play Here by Dawn Watson Nancy Gaffield as these combine to displaceWe Play Here is a collection of four poem stories, taking place in an underdeveloped area of Protestant North Belfast in the summer of 1988, against a background of political turbulence during the Troubles. Written from the perspectives of four female friends in the months between finishing primary school and starting high school, the girls inhabit an eerie, elemental landscape of normalised violence, poverty and neglect. This is a lyrical and