good fortune for this book, andrew
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On Sat, August 13, 2011 03:34, andrew burke wrote:
> New poetry book *QWERTY *by Andrew Burke now available from Mulla Mulla
> Press at http://www.mullamullapress.com/
> <http://www.mullamullapress.com/>
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>
> Thanks to you guys and the SNAP programme for helping me continue to
> write. You've seen a lot of the shit (thanks, Suzi) but hopefully some of
> the richness has risen to the surface and appears in this book. No weeping
> or gnashing of teeth, but slices of humour and humanity. As Australian
> poet *Lucy Dougan* writes,
>
>
> "Andrew Burke is our Puck, our trickster, and aren’t we so very lucky
> for that. In the one move he would hoodwink us and in the next sum up the
> play (or life) so deftly and so sincerely that we are left breathless.
> *Qwerty* bears
> all the very stylish marks of later-life writing. Here nothing is forced,
> everything is earned and for that reason it feels right. This mercurial
> voice is funny, sad, absurd and wise by turns –open to loss and open to
> joy in equal measure. If I had to take a journey through a dark wood I
> would absolutely pack this book."
>
> Go to my blog at http://hispirits.blogspot.com to see the bright cover -
> and go to the publisher's website to read an example poem.
>
> Well, I'm off to Perth Poetry Club this afternoon to hear my friend
> Barbara
> Temperton read - with a handful of books to sell. One must help the
> publisher Coral Carter recoup her costs!
>
>
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> 'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
> http://www.picaropress.com/
> http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
> http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
>
>
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
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Lawrence Upton
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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