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We Play Here, and “Strangely Alive”: Elizabeth Bishop and the 'Art of Story Writing' Dawn Watson (24165804) PUREID: 387138805 Elizabeth Bishop poetics troubles childhood <br>CREATIVE ABSTRACT<br><i>We Play Here</i> is a collection of four poem sequences set in Protestant working class North Belfast in the summer of 1988 against a backdrop of the Troubles. Four female 12-year-old friends navigate an eerie, elemental landscape of normalised violence, poverty, and neglect.<br><br>CRITICAL ABSTRACT<br>This thesis examines Elizabeth Bishop’s technique of overlapping lyric and narrative in her autobiographical short story writing of childhood.<br><br><i>Thesis embargoed until 31st July 2028</i> 2026-10-01T17:01:27Z Text Thesis 10.17034/32633643.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/We_Play_Here_and_Strangely_Alive_Elizabeth_Bishop_and_the_Art_of_Story_Writing_/32633643 All Rights Reserved Open Access after 2028-07-31