I Threw a Stone

By Oscar Sparrow

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Oscar Sparrow is the Poet Lorry-Park.

A collection of poems from the front-line of urban life, the cabs of lorries and the bluebell woods of mortality.

Born in 1949 as the sonic boom of jets and babies began to draw a new world map of umbilical vapour trails, Oscar was brought up on cod liver oil and National Health orange juice. As the colour red leached its way out of the map of the British Empire, Oscar attended a die-hard Church school designed to create noble savages to serve what was left of the savage Nobles. The Eleven Plus exam revealed that he could not even count to eleven and he became a mechanic, labourer, truck driver, boxer and poet. He read Wordsworth and Ford Cortina manuals in a lorry cab near both Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Eventually he found himself in London where he joined the Metropolitan Police. Car chases and riots followed but he did not take it personally. He spent his spare time touring the Art galleries, singing Piaf and learning French and Italian. Eventually The Authorities fell for the con and gave him a desk job in the Art department of Interpol London at Scotland Yard. Throughout all this time he was a would be poet, short story writer and novelist.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gallo-Romano Media
• Release date: Mar 29, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393034773

Book preview

I threw a stone

The Poetry

of

Oscar Sparrow

Foreword by Emma Calin

Music for audio edition by Isabelle Fuller

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I threw a stone

Oscar Sparrow and Emma Calin

Published by Gallo-Romano Media

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Table of Contents

Foreword - by Emma Calin

About the Author  - Oscar Sparrow

Unsolicited Submissions

Gallery

I threw a stone

Morning Analysis

Erectile Dysfunction

Elton

Overdraft

Shot Rabbit

Engine Management Light

Buses Start