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    Shattered Mirror - A Poetry Collection
    Shattered Mirror - A Poetry Collection
    Shattered Mirror - A Poetry Collection
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    Shattered Mirror - A Poetry Collection

    By A L Butcher

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    A collection of short dark poems of war, politics, nature and the vagaries of life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA L Butcher
    Release dateJan 21, 2018
    ISBN9781386018391
    Shattered Mirror - A Poetry Collection
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    A L Butcher

    British-born Alexandra Butcher (a/k/a  A. L. Butcher) is an avid reader and creator of worlds, a poet, and a dreamer, a lover of science, natural history, history, and monkeys. Her prose has been described as ‘dark and gritty’ and her poetry as evocative.  She writes with a sure and sometimes erotic sensibility of things that might have been, never were, but could be.

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      Shattered Mirror - A Poetry Collection - A L Butcher

      Shattered Mirror

      A Poetry Collection

      A. L. Butcher

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      Copyright © A. L. Butcher 2016, 2018, 2020

      All rights reserved.

      The right of A. L. Butcher to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All poems herein are the intellectual property of the author.

      Cover Art © Bonezboyz https://en.fotolia.com/p/205359156

      Adapted by A. L. Butcher

      Contents

      Part One: Politics and War

      The Glass Eyed Monster

      Politics Cries

      We Must Remember

      Children of Religion

      The Last March of the Honourable

      War

      In Whose Name?

      Three

      Where is the Line?

      Stupid

      Apocalypse

      Democracy

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