You deserve success, Andrew. Good luck.
Ken
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Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/
"All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey."
--Francine du Plessix Gray
On Aug 13, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> good fortune for this book, andrew
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> L
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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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> Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
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> Lawrence Upton
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
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