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    Gutter Verse and The Baboon Concerto
    Gutter Verse and The Baboon Concerto
    Gutter Verse and The Baboon Concerto
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    Gutter Verse and The Baboon Concerto

    By Andrew Sparke

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    Compilation of richly autobiographical free verse from the Stourbridge writer who is one half of the performance duo, The Incredible Fake Twins.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAPS Publications
    Release dateMar 2, 2018
    ISBN9781911310013
    Gutter Verse and The Baboon Concerto
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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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