Dearly Fantasy Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves

Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does

glowing illustrations from artist Joy Hwang Ruiz

but as a continuum that runs through (and even underpins) our society—not as a medical ‘condition’

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Dearly Fantasy Food critic Dorothy Daniels lovesThe collection of a lifetime from the prodigious novelist and poet, now available as a paperback. By turns moving, playful, and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens, and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of