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    Love & Levity: Wild Verse, #1
    Love & Levity: Wild Verse, #1
    Love & Levity: Wild Verse, #1
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    Love & Levity: Wild Verse, #1

    By Andrew Sparke

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    WILD VERSE: The new series from the writer of  the six volumes of SOMETHING AKIN TO POETRY and the compilation GUTTER VERSE AND THE BABOON CONCERTO. These are verses which explore emotions and love and laughter and sadness - all the haunting and funny minutiae it's only too easy to overlook as we live busy modern lives. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAPS Publications
    Release dateMay 8, 2017
    ISBN9781911310846
    Love & Levity: Wild Verse, #1
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    Andrew Sparke

    A lawyer and retired local government Chief Executive, Andrew Sparke has reinvented himself as a writer and indie publisher. He owns and manages APS Publications, a vehicle for fiction, poetry, food, travel, sport, erotica, music, photography, health and spirituality, which publishes other indie authors as well as his own work. News and more information is available online at andrew.sparke.com Two novels 'Abuse, Cocaine and Soft Furnishings' and 'Copper Trance & Motorways' are available. A third entitled 'Anger Limerence & Fault Lines' is in preparation.

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      Love & Levity - Andrew Sparke

      Also by Andrew Sparke

      Gutter Verse & The Baboon Concerto

      Broken English

      Fractured Time

      Refracted Light

      Silent Melodies

      Vital Nonsense

      Wicked Virtue

      Abuse Cocaine & Soft Furnishings

      Copper Trance & Motorways

      CONTENTS

      The Promise

      Karma: The Plan

      Resignation

      Layers

      For Leonard

      Cold Baltic Waters Blue

      Perspective

      Sevens

      He Said She Said

      Blue Lights

      Parthian Shot

      Elves In Pointy Hats

      The Twelve Arguments of Christmas

      Losing Jesus (For Michel)

      Giving or Receiving

      Swearing Verse

      Voyeur

      Early Thoughts

      How Would You Know Me?

      You

      That Kiss

      Snowboards

      The Secret Marriage

      Oh Indeed

      The Ladykiller

      Der Rosenkavalier

      Everywhere The Rain

      Malcontents

      The Git

      Gnomic Utterances

      Partnership

      The Count Of Monte Custard (For Robyn)

      Skiing On Scotch

      Zodiac

      Catherine Says

      Living On Gun Street

      Nothing Of Anything

      The World Will End In June

      City and Cathedral

      Shopaholic

      For she who knows exactly who she is and why

      THE PROMISE

      I made you a promise

      To give you enough space

      Not to push or crowd you

      While you work out what you need.

      It

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