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    Channelling Childhood
    Channelling Childhood
    Channelling Childhood
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    Channelling Childhood

    By l.e. berry

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    ‘A look back to childhood, both vehement and vulnerable, Channelling Childhood is an engaging read.’ – Les Wicks, poet, publisher

    ‘A nuanced and sensitive collection of poems on childhood as it is both remembered and experienced.’ – David Musgrave, poet, educator, publisher

    ‘This is

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDebbie Lee
    Release dateDec 20, 2019
    ISBN9781760418281
    Channelling Childhood
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    l.e. berry

    Louise Berry (writing as l. e. berry) has had poems published in many anthologies including various Central Coast Poets anthologies, Blue Room Poets anthologies, Third Wednesday Poets anthologies, Poetry at the Pub anthologies, various issues of Eucalypt, Women's Work, Margaret Olley poems, Food for Thought, Grevillia & Wonga Vine, To End all Wars.

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      Channelling Childhood - l.e. berry

      Channelling Childhood

      Channelling Childhood

      l.e. berry

      Ginninderra Press

      Channelling Childhood

      ISBN 978 1 76041 828 1

      Copyright © text l.e. berry 2019

      Cover image: Judy Hooworth

      All rights reserved. No part of this ebook may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. Requests for permission should be sent to the publisher at the address below.

      First published 2019 by

      Ginninderra Press

      PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015 Australia

      www.ginninderrapress.com.au

      Contents

      Channelling Childhood

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Channelling Childhood

      Weekly Spelling Bee

      in wavy lines

      like Noah’s animals

      we turn

      face each other

      wait

      Miss yells out a word

      first person spells

      gets it right she stays

      gets it wrong she sits

      slowly the queues diminish

      until only that Sarah Mills

      stands opposite me

      her lips curved in a sneer

      Miss asks her to spell believe

      she forgets

      ‘i before e except after c’

      I stand triumphant

      Miss glares

      her pet faltered

      I wait for

      praise

      wait

      English Class

      Sarah Mills smug top of the class this time sure of her self-worth

      Mum asks but is she nice

      I think what’s nice clammy hands leave marks smudge my paper

      heat of effort

      imprint remains for others to follow

      or not

      My knees shake Miss Brown

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