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    Mengeling
    Mengeling
    Mengeling
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    Mengeling

    By Stephen Brown

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    Mengeling is something of a mixture – less a collection, it is more a disparate group of individual poems all drawn together into one bubbling pot. From the ridiculous Bilgeby Sprite to the deeply introspective Waking Up, these poems offer a slightly more personal glimpse into the writer’s psyche.
    Burnt Cakes & Opening Up, like many others titles in Mengeling, display a kind of disarming honesty, allowing the reader to get a little closer to the author.
    Worlds Apart on the other hand is just plain crazy...
    An interesting blend.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Brown
    Release dateFeb 10, 2016
    ISBN9781310015823
    Mengeling
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    Stephen Brown

    Stephen Brown is Emeritus Professor of Learning Technologies and former Head of the School of Media and Communication at De Montfort University. He has been Senior Technology Adviser at the JISC Technologies Centre, Head of Distance Learning at BT, Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Engineering Design, and President of the Association for Learning Technology. He has also been a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and an Associate Member of the Institute for Ergonomics and Human Factors. Since 2005, he has been a registered European Commission research expert in the fields of Technology Enhanced Learning, Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage. He was a member of the AHRC Peer Review College for ten years.

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      Mengeling - Stephen Brown

      MENGELING

      By Stephen Brown

      Copyright 2012 Stephen Brown

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      Contents

      Title Page

      Table of Contents

      List of Poems

      Introduction

      Mengeling

      About the Author

      Other Works

      Chosen Charity

      The Poems

      Tall, dark stranger

      Magic carpet

      The only good Paleface

      Honeymoon in Paradise

      Tweep-tweep

      Distance of a page

      Burnt cakes

      Waking up

      Adumb

      Those pesky hats

      Worlds apart

      Heron

      Footprints

      Bilgeby Sprite

      An Insect’s courage

      Acoustics

      Painting last night

      Companions

      Moment of clarity

      Looking back

      Generosity of a wedding feast

      Novelty weddings

      Solace

      Old Tom

      Enjoy the trip

      Deano

      Pub grub

      30 car pile up

      Mobile phones

      Something to remember

      Loyd Road

      Opening up

      A pleasant dilemma to be in

      A more serious dilemma

      Friday night

      Optimism

      Vouchers

      Be yourself

      Introduction

      Mengeling is the Flemish word for ‘mixture’ and that is exactly what this compilation is – a jumble of poems cherry-picked from various times both before and after those in my first collection. They weren’t going

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