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Bird's Eye View: from Coast to Coast in verse
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781916335387
Publisher: Peter Burgham
Published: May 17 2021
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
BIRD'S EYE VIEW is an engaging debut collection of poems and quirky light verse. Endorsed by New Writing North as one of its recommended books for Autumn 2021, it takes you on a hop-on/hop-off tour of UK and European locations with a diversity of topics from hedgehogs to hang-gliding, strawberry picking to snorkelling, mountains to Mersey Ferries.
In three stages, it takes a rollercoaster ride through British seaside towns in 'Baycombe', casts a wry glance at Britain in Europe in 'Those Eurovision Nights', and ends with a ramble through the shadowy forest of current affairs in the TV newsroom of 'Soundbite City News'. The author explores the peaks and caverns of modern life, with a lively and informed commentary and not least a smile or two ...
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