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Closer  to home, the poems adopt an outsiderish stance as they ponder the  business of non-belonging and draw up wry inventories of marginality -  finding room for those whom history has forgotten (the inhabitants of a  drowned valley in Wales) or equally for the outcasts of natural history  (the northern bald ibis, the hyena, the moa), whose skeletons are 'cairns  to their own extinction'.  But the poems themselves are stubborn survivors and vividly realised individuals: they take short views, make canny  distinctions and tread carefully. 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