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A remarkable book of powerful and moving poems that run the gamut from serious to humorous. Deserves a wide readership. Contains the poems (and dedications): Frogs' Eggs Freud's Back-yard (Bergasse IX, Vienna) Duck Season Fat Lady Visiting a Gallery The Kiss The Invitreous Advent of Septimus St George's Wife Remembers the Dragon Retirement Road Getting On a Bit (Remembering Betty Bradly) Ferries Aunty on Annapurna Bailero for Dead Lovers (Betty and Mike Priestley died together in a car accident on a wet night in 1987.) The Ghost Game (Remembering Mavis Tissell) The Dowser (Remembering Norman…
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1 edition- Paperback · English · 2002Five Islands Press · 53 pages · 9780864187512
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