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Charles Evans
| Charles Evans was educated at Keele, London and Oxford. He served in colonial Borneo before entering the Royal Navy. He lectured at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, specialising in Communism and Russian life and culture, and was a Royal Navy-sponsored graduate of the British Theatre Association's drama course. He has travelled widely in Russia on Leverhulme and British Academy Travelling Fellowships. In 2005 he was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship to complete a narrative of travels in the (then) Soviet Union and the new Russia. His poems have appeared in a variety of journals. |
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Dancing with Delsie
and other poems
ISBN 1-905599-49-3
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Haiku-Man to the rescue! And things along those lines. From South African odysseys to waltzes in wheelchairs via allegorical toasters, Dancing with Delsie and other poems contains all the splendidly multifarious winning entries from Leaf Books’ second
poetry competition of 2008.
her legs are like tree trunks
motionless and solid
‘let’s dance’ she said
with arms in the air
swaying like palm trees
when the wind blows
across a purple sea
Extract from runner-up ‘Dancing with Delsie’ by Sally James.
Outbox and other poems
Poetry Anthology
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Format: Demy
82 Pages
ISBN: 9781905599356
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Outbox and Other Poems contains the winning entries from the Leaf Books Open Poetry Competition that ran during the winter of 2006. The thirty poems within cover such diverse subjects as love and hate, boat-building and ghostly rats, dreamfishers, funerals and science classes. What unites them is their brilliance.
Razzamatazz & Other Poems
Poetry Anthology
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Format: A5 44 Pages
ISBN: 1905599-27-7
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The Leaf Books Short Poetry Competition 2006 invited entrants to submit poems up to sixteen lines in length on any topic imaginable. 525 poems were received on subjects as diverse as love, jazz, the internal monologue of a captive orang-utan and, in the first-prize winning ‘Tundra’, the plight of an obscurely-realised and unnamed refugee.
The competition was judged by prize-winning poet Sheenagh Pugh. This eminently readable anthology houses thirty-seven selected entries by both previously published and first-time poets.