The Missing Months by Lachlan Mackinnon Doris Kareva but in the end she

but in the end she sings a song which affirms that flawed humanity is indeed perfectible’ – Katie Gramich

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The Missing Months by Lachlan Mackinnon Doris Kareva but in the end sheMany of the poems in The Missing Months occupy the strange hiatus afforded by lockdown. They look forward as well as back, toying with possible futures, enthused by utopian dreams or fearing cultural and bodily entropy. They celebrate and mourn the lives of friends and relatives, captivated by carefully tended images from the past. Lockdown's 'missing months' in the world of a four year old granddaughter are laid down and remembered for her. Familiar