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    A Working Day
    A Working Day
    A Working Day
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    A Working Day

    By John Chambers

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    A Working Day is a sonnet sequence focusing on a day in the life of a fictional primary school principal.
    It takes place on the morning the school is notified of an upcoming Whole School Inspection but includes the many lighter moments of school life as well.

    These vivid verses are the loving legacy of poet in love with teaching and a teacher in love with poetry – the kind of verses that prompt you to accost people to read one of them aloud in the absolute confidence they will ask for more.
    – Eoghan Harris

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLimerick Writers Centre
    Release dateMay 17, 2022
    ISBN9781005504380
    A Working Day
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    John Chambers

    John Chambers (1939-2017) had a Master of Arts in English degree from the University of Toronto and spent three years at the University of Paris. He was the author of Victor Hugo’s Conversations with the Spirit World, The Secret Life of Genius, and The Metaphysical World of Isaac Newton. He published numerous articles on subjects ranging from ocean shipping to mall sprawl to alien abduction and contributed essays to Forbidden Religion: Suppressed Heresies of the West.

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