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<p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><u>Less</u></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (adv.) a smaller amount (of)</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In this Ian Gouge's eleventh collection of poetry less is characterised by absence: of love of money of understanding and of life. We are exposed - on occasion brutally - to an experience of the world which is seldom what we would wish it to be.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>facts evaporate under a microscope</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>if its lenses are looked through </em></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>with the eye that's always closed</em></p><p class=ql-align-justify></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>- from 'a question of honesty'</span></p><p></p>