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Limburg, Joanne The Autistic Alice Bloodaxe Books, 2017, pp72, £9.95 978 1 78037 343 0
This collection is split into three sections, the middle being the title-sequence, thirty-one poems in which the experience of growing up with autism is described through the medium of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. The topsy-turvy worlds in which Lewis Carroll's Alice finds herself is a perfect vehicle for conveying the symptoms and effects of autism and the way in which the world looks to an autistic child. In 'Tiny Alice', the words spiral down the page in diminishing font as Alice describes herself as 'so slight that...