A Lock of Poems Recitations and Good Ones
| By: | Seamus O'Rourke |
| Publisher: | Big Guerilla Press |
| Published: | August 2019 |
| Pages: | 128 |
| Categories: | Poetry |
| Available as: | Paperback |
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I get asked a lot for the words to some of my poems and recitations. Thankfully that’s not a problem. It’s lovely to think that people want them. It’s just, some of them were never written down. Some of them are somewhere on my computer or on a USB stick somewhere – my filing system wouldn’t be great. So, I’ve put them into a book. It wasn’t as simple as I thought, but putting it together, brought back some lovely memories of the people, places and events that I was writing about. I hope they will bring a smile to your face too.
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