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    Love is a song she sang from a cage
    Love is a song she sang from a cage
    Love is a song she sang from a cage
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    Love is a song she sang from a cage

    By Bianca Bowers

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    In her third book of poetry, Bianca Bowers explores the complexities of love and challenges the convention of monogamy.

    I think of Anthony and Cleopatra...epic, fated, tragic lovers that drank from love’s cup but once. Only, I am no Cleopatra.  I am Juliette, with her teenage desire; ambivalent about poison and

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaperFields Press
    Release dateNov 6, 2017
    ISBN9780994240460
    Love is a song she sang from a cage
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    Bianca Bowers

    Bianca Bowers is an immigrant, best-selling poetry author, novelist and award-winning poetry editor. She holds a BA in English and Film/TV/Media Studies and has authored several books through her imprints Paperfields Press and Auteur Books.She is known for her deeply personal writing style that seamlessly weaves cultural and literary references into work that is informed by life experience and inspired by love, relationships, personal evolution, and the human condition.Bianca's first poems were published in 1999, in the esteemed New Zealand poetry anthology, Tongue in your Ear. Since then, Bianca's poems have appeared in various print anthologies, online journals and a trailer for a short film.THE WINEMAKER'S WIFE is Bianca's second novel.

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