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    Pills for the Homeward Bound
    Pills for the Homeward Bound
    Pills for the Homeward Bound
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    Pills for the Homeward Bound

    By John A B Lansdown

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    ‘Pills for the Homeward Bound’ concludes the ‘Pills on the Ward Series’. Defining features of this anthology are restless verses primed to divert sluggish thoughts away from pending medical appointments to refocus on the fabric of society. The hospital series features plays punctuated with original artwork, plays and poems by the author. While distracting patients is a theme throughout the series, each book may be read independently and in any order.
    Various office holders suffer sleepless nights thinking about how best they can serve the public during their tenure in public office. Hospital inmates may discover solace by offering these brave policy makers some advice to ease their tremendous burden of social responsibility. Resolving the illness in society can be a cathartic process simultaneously recovering both the patient and society.
    Society making a bee-line towards establishing repressive world governance provides a rich source of dark satire for the play ‘Three Bags of Sugar’. Intrigue is, as always, enhanced with illustrations using original artwork by the author. As throughout the author’s hospital series, plays, poems and fables are richly enhanced with an assortment of characters ranging from woolly minded despots to sycophantic flunkies for one world governance. Though intended for a patient destined for a long spell, the verses may be read by anyone seeking asylum from dominant ideology.
    Also in the Pills on the Ward series:
    Book One - Pills for the First Consultation
    Book Two - Pills for the First Night
    Book Three - Pills for the First Day
    Book Four - Pills for Visiting Hours
    Book Five - Pills for the Homeward Bound
    Due to popular demand, the series is compiled into one book called Sweet Pills for the Hospital Ward

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn A B Lansdown
    Release dateJun 27, 2019
    ISBN9780463382042
    Pills for the Homeward Bound
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    John A B Lansdown

    Formative years in the scenic Lakelands of North West England shaped John A B Lansdown into an outside landscape painter. Making violins at the prestigious Newark School in Nottinghamshire garnered a discipline that rubbed off onto his fine art. Watercolours, sketches and oil paintings interweave his poems and plays. Selling paintings internationally, he exhibits in Bulgaria, Austria, France and England. His prime displacement activity is playing a hand-made cigar box guitar accompanied by a voice allegedly resembling a tormented alley cat.

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