The Times reviews John Stammers Stolen Love Behaviour

as a love poet he is part of a tradition that dates back to the Elizabethan sonnet and beyond, that he writes the way he does. He does not de-activate powerful feelings by banishing them to historical cliché, but rather articulates them as they flourish in our contemporary culture...

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