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”The Red Queen is a memorable debut which will speak to many readers.”
Read the poem ‘The Needle Case’ below:
was cut from felt
to shape the silhouette
of a girl in a bonnet and cape,
her button boots snipped
from the same scrap.
Aunt Min, whose work she was,
embroidered all the flowers of spring
around the bonnet’s brim and made
a posy frilled with lace for her invisible hands.
She belongs to a world where cockle shells
and silver bells abound but if you lift
the corner of her cape and peep
inside she’s ribbed with steel spikes,
sharp as the Red Queen’s tongue.
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