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On The Boats - A Tragi-Comedy - cover

On The Boats - A Tragi-Comedy

Cherry Coombe

Publisher: University of Buckingham Press

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Summary

‘A snake-bite in the gullet’ Martin Boileau 
Foreword from Sir Anthony Seldon: 
'Like a fine Prosecco in summer, they trickle easily through your body, leaving you gently uplifted and transported. 
The author is a brilliant teacher and inspirer of creative writing, a passionate supporter of students and staff, and our very own ‘Happiness Tsar’, responsible for driving forward our pioneering well-being agenda. 
Many of the poems that follow reveal the author’s rare combination of skill as a writer and deep human sensitivity. To me, perhaps understandably, the poem on the Boss epitomises that combination at its best.'
Available since: 09/30/2018.

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