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    With Double Blade
    With Double Blade
    With Double Blade
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    With Double Blade

    By Jean Gill

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    The antidote to Valentine's Day if you like your reading sharp, not sickly sweet.

    'Jean Gill's spiky humour makes you feel as if she's caught you on barbed wire and yet makes you smile about it'– Mike Sharpe, Haverfordwest Journalist

    Strong, fresh, vivid poems from award-winning author Jean Gill, on an astounding range of subjects including adultery, AIDS and the Mexican Earthquake. If you crossed Wendy Cope's work with Sylvia Plath's, Jean Gill's poetry might be the result.

    'You're starting to smother me, darling,you're faded and boring, my dear.It's my turn to play with anotherand your turn alone with your fear.'

    Divided into two parts, this new edition includes the stories behind the poetry, some personal and some about world events; always surprising.

    Moving and varied

    – Dorothy Tutin

    Jean Gill brings off the rare feat of looking life squarely in the eye without descending into dreary cynicism.– HS Milford Haven, Journalist

    The author is particularly gifted with poetry. The Wishing Shelf Award

    An excellent collection – I enjoyed the sharpness and insight, the word-play - Robert Nisbet, Downtrain

    Brings out feelings you didn't know you had, Claire Stibbe, Detective Temeke series

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe 13th Sign
    Release dateFeb 14, 2018
    ISBN9781386844075
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