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Borderlands

Borderlands


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The borderlands are where the past and the present and the human and the natural world meet. This is John's first poetry collection. Part One is a window into his childhood and adolescence and the events and people that influenced him along the way. It contains many amusing and some sad recollections, ending with his time as a rebellious National Service recruit; Part Two explores the shifting terrain of an adulthood that has spanned seven eventful decades. Poignant, humorous, and sometimes caught on the edge of the primeval and the mysterious, these poems paint a vivid picture of John's perspective on life from the vantage point of his 94 years.

Table of Contents:

PART ONE

THE TONGUES IN MY HEAD

INFINITE RICHES: TWO ROOMS IN THE 'FORTIES

SHELTER

PIANO LESSONS WITH MISS ANNIE

THEIR FRONT BEDROOM

MISS BROWN AND PEGGY

PIANO TUNER

PHOTOGRAPH: MAN AND BIKE

JOKE SHOP

THE STAR

"WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?"

(a 1930's American union and protest song)

OHMS

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PART TWO

BORDERLANDS

MULTITUDINOUS SEAS INCARNADINE

GEOFREY ON JEFFERY

ONE WAY TO SKIN A CAT

TOES

PENNINE HILL FARM

FROM THE DIARY OF DAVY GAM ESQ

WARD MUSIC

B&B: AN ELEGY

AND NO CATS MEOW...

HAIKU: CLOUDS

DUST

GEORGE LUGUBRIOUS

AND WHAT GOD MADE

HER ON HIM

OUTPATIENTS RECEPTION

FAT MAN AT THE POOL...

In Memoriam. LAWRENCE CASSIDY

HIGH STREET MAN

MIRROR

IN CRETE

ACCIDENT

from THE ALLOTMENT BOOK OF ENGLISH VEGETABLE VERSE

THIS AND THAT

DEFECTOR

LAST LESSON

EPITAPHS FOR THREE VICTORIAN FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS

"ME, MYSELF AND I"

HAIKU: OUR STREET

AND ON THE EIGHTH DAY...

CHURCH FELLOWSHIP WALK

CAMPING IN WHARFEDALE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS



About the Author :
John Crick was born and grew up in Bury, Lancashire (before Greater Manchester had been conceived), and then in Accrington.  Even after decades away from the North, he still sees himself as a Northerner. He came to poetry relatively late, and puts this down to the elitist nature of the poetry world in his early days at school and college. "Borderlands" is his first collection of poems after decades of retirement from teaching in schools, colleges, adult education and the Open University.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781836157113
  • Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 78
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 103 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1836157118
  • Publisher Date: 29 May 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 140 mm


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