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Finnish poet Eira Stenberg writes mainly about home life, but she deals with family relationships like an exorcist casting out demons; viewing the conflicts of marriage, divorce, motherhood and childhood with a ruthless eye. In spite of this, her poetry can be tender and playful, writing with wit, even humour, and a relish of the tongue in her head. Hers is a deadly mind, but the deadliness springs from a lively love of life, for under the smokescreen of innocence "the barbed wire cuddles us, and blooms with roses".

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