Deborah Harvey
Deborah Harvey lives and writes in Bristol and Devon. Her poems usually seed themselves while she is out walking, and are influenced chiefly by the landscape and its stories, particularly those of her native West Country. She is single mother to four interesting offspring and works in a school for deaf children.
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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.