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In today's instalment of The WAR Series: Writers As Readers we get two fabulous authors for the price of one; David Dowker and Christine Stewart are the authors of Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal (BookThug).

Virtualis is a poetic exploration of melancholia and (as you might guess from the lush jacket image) the baroque. From Medusa to the Sphinx, and from bees to snails, the collection brings a modern viewpoint and reaction to the works of master poets like Baudelaire and Rimbaud.