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PoetryHappy Birthday Mr B!Robbin Lloyd and Gaku NakagawaThis disarmingly beautiful collaboration from the American poet and Japanese illustrator (and Monocle regular, see the cover) spins short stanzas about a week in the life of a Japanese retirement home, sketching life stories, dispensing small details and humanising a grey generation that are curious as kids.
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