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Percy French Shortlist 2013

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Margaret Hickey

  • Percy French Shortlist 2013
  • Apr 24, 2013
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The Arithmetic of Love In the beginning we were carried away by each other’s figures And applied ourselves wholeheartedly to multiplication. Love

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Christopher North

  • Percy French Shortlist 2013
  • Apr 23, 2013
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Well, my dears, greetings from my world of words, word of worlds I do not faff, I epiphanise. I am air. I am tangerine air and I waft through

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Joao Morais

  • Percy French Shortlist 2013
  • Apr 23, 2013
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Oedipus Rex Quite long ago, there lived a prince Whose sense of fun would make you wince. Instead of polo, he would rather Have a spot of

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Mike Absalom

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  • Apr 23, 2013
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The Mole The goal of a mole is a very big hole From the very first day he’s born. The goal of a mole is a very big hole in 

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Samantha Strachen

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  • Apr 23, 2013
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Ideal ‘Ideal’ Ha! As if there is objective perfection the closest I shall venture will be I deal with my problems’

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Shortlist for Percy French Prize for Comic Poetry Announced

  • Percy French Shortlist 2013
  • Apr 10, 2013
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At 10pm on Friday May 3rd, following on from the opening of this year’s festival by Senator Catherine Noone, and readings by Vona Groarke

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