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    Rapport
    Rapport
    Rapport
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    Rapport

    By Laurie Brady

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    Rapport is a book of poems with immediate emotional impact. Exploring the dynamics of interpersonal relationships, the poems focus on many of life’s universal concerns: love, memory, identity, ageing, regret, loss, dying and death. Some of the poems are quietly contemplative, and others are charged with emotion, but collectively t

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateAug 15, 2016
    ISBN9781760411886
    Rapport
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    Laurie Brady

    Laurie Brady is a poet, having six published collections, and a writer of short stories, having three published collections. He spent his life in teaching and teacher education, retiring as professor of education at the University of Technology, Sydney.

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