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1 December 2021

The NS Poem: autodidact

A new poem by Claudine Toutoungi.

By Claudine Toutoungi

Claudine Toutoungi’s debut poetry collection, “Smoothie” (2017), and her second collection, “Two Tongues” (2020), are published by Carcanet Press

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This article appears in the 01 Dec 2021 issue of the New Statesman, The virus strikes back