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The richness and vigor of the English Renaissance in the service of a complex set of postmodern concerns. This is alert, sharp-edged contemporary poetry, electric with allusion and irony, compulsively readable.

What Kate Lilley gives us is the richness and vigour of the English Renaissance in the service of a complex set of postmodern concerns; scholarship as a handmaiden to art; and literature galvanised by passion. What we get is an alert, sharp-edged contemporary poetry, electric with allusion and irony, compulsively readable.