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    Richard & Other Lovers
    Richard & Other Lovers
    Richard & Other Lovers
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    Richard & Other Lovers

    By Jan Sayer

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    Poems 1980 to 2017

    About love, loss and how Richard was only the beginning. Sad, funny and witty poems inspired by a lifetime of love affairs; some good and some awful. If this is your story too, you will love this book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJSPrintz
    Release dateNov 22, 2021
    ISBN9798201286880
    Richard & Other Lovers
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    Jan Sayer

    too celebrated to be named in her humble biography. After University, she toured Europe and beyond as a company stage manager and lighting designer. For ten years, she was a stage manager at Sydney Opera House. She was a producer at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, and recently an executive assistant at the University of Sydney. Today she lives on the island of Texel in the Netherlands. She loves cats, sports cars and the ocean, and wants to earn enough to feed her designer clothes habit.

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      Richard & Other Lovers - Jan Sayer

      Richard and Other Lovers

      Richard & Other Lovers

      Jan Sayer

      Published by JSPrintz, 2021.

      While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

      RICHARD & OTHER LOVERS

      First edition. November 22, 2021.

      Copyright © 2021 Jan Sayer.

      ISBN: 979-8201286880

      Written by Jan Sayer.

      If you can't be with the one you love

      Love the one you're with

      Stephen Stills

      RICHARD AND OTHER LOVERS

      POEMS 1980 - 2017

      JAN SAYER

      JSPRINTZ

      If you can't be with the one you love

      Love the one you're with

      Stephen Stills

      CONTENTS

      A Little Boat

      City Lament

      Ghost

      Tracks

      Unravelling

      A Book for Kathryn

      Sky Diamonds

      Divided

      I Remember

      The Watchers

      Academic Life & Hand-Crafted Cheeses

      Jacaranda Dreaming

      Flowers in the Winter

      Your Sweater

      Rooftop

      Hold On

      The Lie in your Voice

      And that is Love

      Literary Lunch

      The Audience

      Word Clouds

      Fragile

      A Wet Day in Leicester

      Frizinghall

      It is Best

      Morning Song

      A Tasty Morsel

      The Word

      No Place to Call Home

      Hallmark Card Memories

      A Sense of You

      A Perfect Stranger

      Against the Wall

      My Friend

      Patterns

      Eurydice

      About the Author

      A Little Boat

      I dream of a boat to take us away

      A long boat, a little boat with sails as white as a spider’s web

      Bustled by the wind, dampened by the river’s spray

      To stand at night

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