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The Book Reviewer’s Nightmare Part 1

Imagine, if you will, that a book reviewer is sitting in his office on a Friday afternoon. He’s got just one more book to review before he can slope off to the pub for a few pints. So he just looks at the title and makes up any old thing without actually READING the book. [...]

Dewey-eyed

On Monday I got lost between Religion and Metaphysics. You hacked through Botany to rescue me. On Tuesday I teetered on the kick step in Literature and rhetoric while you offered up a serenade of Italian poetry. On Wednesday I said maybe Library relationships weren’t such a good idea. You said you appreciated Satire and [...]

The joy of x

xylophone, xenophobe, pixel, hex, Xerox, chickenpox, x-ray specs oxygen, hexagon, fix, fax, fox, fixture, mixture, flux, flax, phlox oxen, vixen, Dixon of Dock Green, exit, fix-it, oxyacetylene sixty, six-pack, box, exhaust, textual, sexual intercourse xenon, excellent, axe, fixate, exceptional, experience, extrapolate Xena, Xanadu, x-ray diagnosis, extraterrestrial, myxomatosis. © Helen Whittaker http://theduckside.com First published in Poetry [...]