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    Hard Peace: Pomes & Songs
    Hard Peace: Pomes & Songs
    Hard Peace: Pomes & Songs
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    Hard Peace: Pomes & Songs

    By Paul McNamara

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    Hard Peace: Pomes and Songs represents a short selection of 19 hastily chosen poems and songs written in the past five years. Some are quite long and others quite short. Some are quite literal and others far less so.

    Many of the works would benefit from being read in a broad Glaswegian accent – more for reasons of atmosphere than because of anything literary.

    True lovers of poetry would almost certainly find that their time and attention was more fruitfully spent doing something else – but if you must, you must.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPaul McNamara
    Release dateDec 22, 2021
    ISBN9781005667498
    Hard Peace: Pomes & Songs
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    Paul McNamara

    Paul McNamara is an editor and journalist with over 20 years’ experience. His career includes spells with the Financial Times, Euromoney, BRW Media, Asia-Inc, Private Equity & Hedge Funds Middle East and Banker Middle East. He has a specialization in Islamic finance, the Middle East banking and finance industry, GCC capital markets, wealth management and the world of interest rate securities.

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