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My Rivers by Faruk Šehić Donald Gardner ‘The pleasure I have gainedMy Rivers is a poetic event in four cycles: The Loire, The Spree, The Drina and the Beyond the Rivers. The collection brings together twenty five poems which utilize different poetic forms, although the style is never overly strict in form, as ehi always wants this work to be as clear and understandable as possible. Often hard hitting and even brutal at times, these works rest on the themes of post war reality and the culture of remembrance in a wider