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Daisy Lafarge

Daisy Lafarge

Daisy Lafarge lives in Glasgow. She is the author of the novel Paul (Granta, 2021) and the poetry collection Life Without Air (Granta, 2020), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Lovebug, a book on the poetics of infection, will be published by Peninsula Press in 2023. icon

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