The Guide to Being Bear-Aware by SJ Fowler Yang Lian as if it is almost

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The Guide to Being Bear-Aware by SJ Fowler Yang Lian as if it is almostThis collection brings my work back to the more formally literary, engaging with the 20th century European traditions that brought me into writing poetry. The poems mark a re engagement with narrative, a first person subject, though fluid and ironised, and explore ideas surrounding contemporary political and moral factionalism, and its often infantile, hypocritical character, and the place this has in a wider notion of humans as arrogant animals