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    Three Styles of Poetry: Poetry from Mother, Daughter, and Granddaughter
    Three Styles of Poetry: Poetry from Mother, Daughter, and Granddaughter
    Three Styles of Poetry: Poetry from Mother, Daughter, and Granddaughter
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    Three Styles of Poetry: Poetry from Mother, Daughter, and Granddaughter

    By Jean Gadd, Kerry Townley-Smith and Emma Townley-Smith

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    The book is a collection of poems written by Jean, the mother; Kerry, the daughter; and Emma, the granddaughter. The poems have different styles and reflect what is going on in each persons life.

    They were collected over several years, and Jean wanted to preserve them in book form for the family and anyone else who cares to look at the poetry.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateJun 29, 2018
    ISBN9781532049590
    Three Styles of Poetry: Poetry from Mother, Daughter, and Granddaughter
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    Jean Gadd

    Jean Gadd is a retired teacher with degrees in Education and Arts from Sheffield College England and the University of Saskatchewan. She is a musician, tennis player, reader, mother, grandmother, and has travelled in Europe. She has collected poems from her daughter and granddaughter. Jean has two children and lives in Saskatoon ,Saskatchewan Canada.

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      Three Styles of Poetry - Jean Gadd

      Copyright © 2018 Jean Gadd Kerry Townley-Smith Emma Townley-Smith

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

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      iUniverse rev. date:  05/19/2018

      Contents

      On Your Convocation

      On Your Wedding Day

      An exciting night on the U of S trip to Costa Rica

      Mist

      The Human race

      A Lovely Day

      Heartbeat

      Thunder

      Esperance

      A

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