"Her poetry is full-blown, lush, often touched with a melancholy for home."
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Polly Pattullo, article in Writing Lives: conversations between women writers (1988)
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Phyllis Shand Allfrey
Phyllis Byam Shand Allfrey (24 October 1908 – 4 February 1986) was a writer, socialist activist, newspaper editor and politician who lived most of her life on the Caribbean island of Dominica.
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