Ewan
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Ewan Lawrie
The picture is me signing copies of my novel, Gibbous House at Unbound Books HQ in Islington by the canal.
All three Moffat novels are available here
My stories
The Rag Doll's Clothes (I Am Not Invisible)
Photograph is from wiki commons - unfortunately - taken in 2006, I wonder where this woman is now? Is she even alive? A large proportion of the UK's homeless are ex-military personnel. Licence cc-by-sa-2.0.
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Son of My Father
What's this one about? Fathers and sons, old age, what awaits us all... and loads of other things, you decide. Image in PD, source Look and Learn.com, Odysseus and the sirens.
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Black Hole
Another old one. I treated it to some punctuation and one word change. So now it's a completely different poem, isn't it? Picture is from wiki commons. Used under CC 4.0 licence
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Poetry Commotion
And this is the oldest thing I could find today. It used to be on an earlier incarnation of UKA, in 2010. image made at canva.com
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Radio Galaxies
Very old poem, written 2011. I like it, but you don't have to. Image created using canva from elements provided.
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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day 19th August 202
Posted on Sun, 14 Aug 2022
This clever use of simple language to express complex emotion means that this poem is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Please, those who use social media, share and/or retweet so others can enjoy it too.
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I have changed the font size,
Posted on Sun, 14 Aug 2022
I hope you don't mind. It really was very small and I'd hate for peope to have missed out on your excellent poem because they couldn't read it.
E x
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I have taken the liberty
Posted on Sun, 14 Aug 2022
of adding an image so your accolade is more eye-catching on the front page. Image is from pixel.la via wiki commons and is CC0 licenced.
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Congratulations This is our Poem of the Week August 19th 2022
Posted on Sun, 14 Aug 2022
This is our poem of the week. Well done.
Do you think you could adjust the font and make it bigger, as it's a little sore on the eyes at this size?
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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day 11 August 2022
Posted on Thu, 11 Aug 2022
This simple, effective poem draws attention to a complex matter, and that's why it's our pick of the day today.
If you read it, please share and/or retweet it.
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When my wife
Posted on Wed, 03 Aug 2022
was undergoing her treatment for a different kind of cancer, the chemo gave her what amounted to IBS. We had just returned to the UK from 15 years abroad in Spain. Throughout 2018 and some of 2019 we had many a panicked and fruitless search for a...
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Well done,
Posted on Wed, 27 Jul 2022
remarkable work. Layers, repetition and rhymes all chime to make this fab.
E x
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I feel like I've
Posted on Fri, 22 Jul 2022
been on the Marrakesh Express...
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Been thinking about this one...
Posted on Tue, 19 Jul 2022
The Bells and The Muezzin would be interruptions in the relative silence of the pre-industrial era, striking the hour, calling to prayer or as warning if it were the case of a tocsin bell. Interesting, though, about the changing soundscape. I...
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I confess
Posted on Tue, 19 Jul 2022
I did enjoy the the silence, once it started being filled by wildlife. At the depth of the lock-down a deer was running down Jepson Road - usually a very busy thoroughfare. I hate the noise those buses make really, but when I was young, you might...
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