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    Neapolitan Skies
    Neapolitan Skies
    Neapolitan Skies
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    Neapolitan Skies

    By Bernadette Anderson

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    “Bernadette Anderson’s voice is no longer hidden but released in these poems. Many are grounded in the theatre of everyday life. From her coffee comfort zone she observes other people and imagines herself ‘woven into the colourful fabrics of others’ travels’. She weaves from a different denser cloth when she moves i

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateJul 9, 2019
    ISBN9781760417642
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