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    There Will Be Pauses Just Like This
    There Will Be Pauses Just Like This
    There Will Be Pauses Just Like This
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    There Will Be Pauses Just Like This

    By Pàdruig MacIlleChiar

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    These distillations, inspired by my home in North Uist,have been compiled to create this, my second independently published poetry collection.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPàdruig MacIlleChiar
    Release dateSep 3, 2015
    ISBN9781310449765
    There Will Be Pauses Just Like This
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    Pàdruig MacIlleChiar

    ...island poet reclining on a seaweed-upholstered chaise longue of gneiss...Pàdruig MacIlleChiar lives and works in the Scottish Western Isles (Outer Hebrides) where his ancestors have lived and worked for at least two-hundred and fifty years.His first book, published simultaneously in the Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) translation available here and in a printed edition in the original English, has had more than one-thousand downloads.

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