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Oz Hardwick
| Oz Hardwick is a York-based writer, photographer and occasional musician. His first poetry collection, The Kind Ghosts (bluechrome, 2004), was very well received and his follow-up, Carrying Fire (bluechrome, 2006), looks set to build on this success. His poems and short stories have appeared in many journals and anthologies and have won several competitions. Oz has read his work in the UK, Europe and US, as well as on radio and television.www.ozhardwick.co.uk |
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Standing on the Cast Iron Shore
and Other Poems
ISBN 978-1-905599-45-5
£7.99 (plus £1 p&p)
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looking for a man to make you whole.
Here are a hundred of them, perfectly formed.
These men will never let you down,
or give you a load of grief.
They’ll stay around.
Time and tide wait for no man.
So take one, quick.
They’ll love you like no other can.
Extract from winning entry ‘Standing on the Cast-Iron
Shore’ by Kathy Miles.
Standing on the Cast-Iron Shore and Other Poems
contains the winning entries from the Leaf Books Poetry
Competition 2008: they comprise thirty-three of the
most tantalising verses about iron men, deceptive
uncles, egregious myna birds and macadamia nut
steamers that you could ever hope to encounter.
The Leaf Books team was aided in the judging of this
competition by the poet Sheenagh Pugh.
Outbox and other poems
Poetry Anthology
Price £7.99 + £1 p&p
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.