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Poetic Licence in a Time of Corona

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ISBN: 9780992736880
AuthorFitzpatrick, Chris
Pub Date12/05/2022
BindingPaperback
Pages80
CountryIRL
Dewey821.92
Quick overview An Irish medic finds healing for himself by writing poems on his phone as the pandemic grips. Rhythm, rhyme, haiku, a list poem of what to do when someone can’t breathe (and why you wouldn’t kneel on their neck), why Lionel Richie keeps sending him emails.
€16.00

Chris Fitzpatrick finds comfort in poets past, in Strictly Ballroom, in what he’ll say to the Brazilian woman at the check out when it’s all over. His fear, his grief, his laughter, his joy becomes ours too as we are healed by the magic of his words, “At the remains of the day, we read back over.”

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Chris Fitzpatrick finds comfort in poets past, in Strictly Ballroom, in what he’ll say to the Brazilian woman at the check out when it’s all over. His fear, his grief, his laughter, his joy becomes ours too as we are healed by the magic of his words, “At the remains of the day, we read back over.”

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