by Ryan Gattis
First published in the UK 2017 by Picador
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The extract from ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ here is reproduced with permission of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, from The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Centenary Edition (2014).
Extract taken from ‘Two Rooms’ © Emily Berry and reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber.
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