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title: "Where Shadow Falls"
url: "https://ruthocallaghan.com/books/where-shadow-falls"
updated: 2026-10-12
description: "Poems that take in prostitution, prison and political deception. Two Rivers Press, 2023."
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# Where Shadow Falls

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_Two Rivers Press, October 2023. 84 pages. ISBN 9781915048080._

The poems move between what is present and what lies beyond it, and take in prostitution, prison and political deception.

> This is one of the most challenging collections that SOUTH has ever asked me to review.– David Ashbee, _SOUTH_, September 2024

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