True Tales of the Countryside
By Deborah Alma
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Deborah Alma
Deborah Alma has an MA in Creative Writing, teaches Writing Poetry at Worcester University and uses poetry to assist communication with people with dementia. Last year she was Writer in Residence for the Arvon Foundation at The Hurst and for the NHS Mental Health and Wellbeing Conference 2013. She is also the Emergency Poet.
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True Tales of the Countryside - Deborah Alma
True Tales of the Countryside
Poems by Deborah Alma
With an introduction by Helen Ivory
Emma-Press-text-plus-tagline.jpgThe Emma Press
Contents
Cover
Title page
Dedication
Introduction, by Helen Ivory
I put a pen in my cunt once
New House
I Don’t Know Why
Running Away
On Sleeping Alone
Aldi
Chicken
Fridge Magnets
When You’re Ready, The Right Man Will Come Along
Cattle Lorry Lover
Getting It
I Am My Own Parent
Pink Pyjama Suit
My Mother Moves Into Adolescence
My Brown-Eyed Girl
He Sees Me
Quaker Hat
Lift Him Up Out
She describes herself like this
Small Rain
True Tales of the Countryside 1
True Tales of the Countryside 2
True Tales of the Countryside 3
True Tales of the Countryside 4
Acknowledgements & About the poet
About the Emma Press
Also from the Emma Press
Copyright page
Dedication
for Jim, with love
Introduction
A collection that begins I put a pen in my