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Peephole Extravaganza
Paperback
Publisher Price: $13.99
ISBN13: 9781068449864
Publisher: Coverstory Books
Published: Feb 28 2026
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Simon French's third collection offers its readers a feast of original and sometimes startling imagery in poems ranging from the tenderly insightful to the boldly erotic; poems which allow privileged insights into so many different lives.
His pages are densely populated with losers and gainers, lovers and predators: a defiant eighty-four-year-old on skis for the first time, 'not wanting death to pick the cottage lock'; a homeless man surviving cold nights by sleeping at the base of a crematorium chimney; even a wind-turbine is brought convincingly to life.
Those familiar with Simon's earlier work will again encounter the same energy and apparently endless inventiveness which contribute to his unique style - from the 'Great Tombola in the Sky' which opens the book, to the gentle surprise of the final poem.
A 'Peephole Extravaganza' indeed.
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