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    Penning Perfumes Volume 2
    Penning Perfumes Volume 2
    Penning Perfumes Volume 2
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    Penning Perfumes Volume 2

    By Claire Trevien

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    The companion ebook to the Penning Perfumes tour organized by Odette Toilette and Claire Trévien across the UK. This anthology presents the work of twelve poets from Manchester, Birmingham, Oxford, and Bristol, as well as the quickfire haiku of audiences from these four cities.

    Featuring poems by Lucy Ayrton, David Briggs, Holly Corfield-Carr, Anna Freeman, Dan Holloway, Andrew Mcmillan, Kim Moore, Anna Percy, Bohdan Piasecki, Jacqui Rowe, Camellia Stafford, and Eloise Stonborough. Bonus material includes three new poems by John Clegg, Lindsey Holland, and Dan Simpson.

    Penning Perfumes was supported using public funding awarded by Arts Council England.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClaire Trevien
    Release dateMar 31, 2013
    ISBN9781301857371
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      Penning Perfumes Volume 2 - Claire Trevien

      Penning Perfumes

      Presented by Odette Toilette and Claire Trévien

      Copyright © 2013 Odette Toilette and Claire Trévien

      E-book edited by Claire Trévien

      Cover designed by Nick Murray of Annexe Magazine

      http://penningperfumes.tumblr.com

      Penning Perfumes was supported using public funding awarded by Arts Council England.

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      Foreword

      The following poems were written by twelve poets from four cities across the UK: Manchester, Birmingham, Oxford, and Bristol. We sent each of them an anonymous vial of perfume from which they would have to write a poem. Little

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