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The Martyrdoms at Clifford's Tower 1190 and 1537
John Rayne-Davis
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On March 16th 1190 anti-semitic rioting led to the eventual deaths of the entire Jewish community in York. On 12th of July 1537 Robert Aske was one of 216 Catholics executed by Henry VIII
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The Go-To Guy
Neal Hardin
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Suzanne Croft’s ambition is to become a widow. Tom Masson is the go-to guy between her and killer for hire Liam Divorty who discovers the intended victim is inconveniently dead.
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Abernathy
Claire Patel-Campbel
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It all starts with a body, frozen in the snow. Who she is, and why she came to be there, will be the plucked thread that may cause the whole town to unravel.
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The River Was a God
David Lee Morgan
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A computer wakes up in the year 2035, on the eve of the world socialist revolution. Fighting has broken out all over the globe. For the first time, the US military has used tactical nuclear weapons on its own population.
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A Thing of Beauty
Don Walls
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The musings of a brilliant poet and humanitarian at the end of his life. He recollects the people who have been important to him, aqnd the places that influenced him.
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Gooseberries
Val Horner
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The poems of Val Horner, exquisitely illustrated by her daughter Tina, in turn illustrate why Val is such a popular poet.
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A Shadow in my Life
Rita Jerram
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This ground breaking memoir tells the story of a teenager confined in a 1950s sanatorium and of the lives of her fellow patients in an isolation ward.
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The Grubby Feather Gang
Antony Wootten
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George's father is branded a coward for refusing to fight. Worse, the school bully hangs George upside-down from the hayloft, and later, George gets the cane! With help from Emma, he takes drastic revenge He could never have predicted what happens next.
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Season of the Mammoth
Antony Wootten
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Geb and Tanesh, along with their friend, Scrim, are caught in the middle as the tribe splits apart over the wanderers who travel to their valley to hunt mammoths.
Season of the Mammoth is a Stone Age story of family, friendship, intolerance and injustice.
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Tyrants Rex
Clint Wastling
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Mycul Zas, cheated of his inheritance, is thrust into a world of betrayal, prophecy, and genetically engineered monsters.
Torn between fate, loyalty, prophesy and the enmity of the Protector, he strives to overthrow a tyrannical regime and destroy the restraints of destiny itself.
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Mouse Pirate
Dawn Treacher
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Wilfred wants to be a Pirate but real pirates find treasure.
Wilfred and Parrot go on a dangerous adventure under the sea where anything could be lurking.
Written and delightfully illustrated by Dawn Treacher
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Poetry for the Newly Single 40 Something
Maria Stephenson
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Survival after becoming single at forty requires a complete change.
Only someone who has undergone such a transformation can observe the toxicity of a dying relationship and remark on the vibrant new person who flies free.
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Northern Lights
Harry Gallagher
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A celebration of this last generation who spent their lives "fighting iron": men bound by a common purpose and by the communities they lived in; sculpted by industry and polished with grit now abandoned to archaeologists.
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Rapeseed
Alwyn Marriage
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What is it like to discover you were born because your mother was raped by a stranger? When Sam attempts to fulfil a long-held ambition to meet her natural father, she is drawn into a web of chance and intrigue that leads inexorably to danger.
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Nothing is Meant to be Broken
Mark Connors
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Connors debut collection opens up his landscapes - personal, political, geographical - and invites us in. From Leeds to Mull and Donegal via the highways of Arizona and beyond, these poems radiate a warmth - and an easy, quiet skill.
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Heading for the Hills
Gillian Byrom-Smith
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The result of the remarkable collaboration between Gillian and Peter Byrom-Smith.
Gillian’s style is fittingly pastoral and dovetails seamlessly with the oeuvre of British song writing developed over the last century.
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Rhinoceros
Daniel Richardson
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A collection of short stories described bt Fay Weldon as “a delight...” “Written in a prose which could be poetry, strong on humour, low in self-pity: about the intractabilities of the material world.“
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More Exhibitionism
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An anthology of poems and short stories from the Spoken Word in York
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Know Thyself
Lance Clark
Price £10.00
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A collection of self-discovery: stories of humour and darkness, greed and awakening; each tale with a woman as the protagonist. These stories explore the myriad ways women perceive their lives, and how events can inspire remarkable change.
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Thinking of you Always
Lewis Hill
Ed. Pauline Kirk
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A remarkable insight into the lives of servicemen, and women during the Second World War. Lew describes the rigours of day to day life on and off the base. A remarkable testament to a unique man and the endurance of his love for his wife through five years of separation.
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The Beggars of York
Don Walls
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Don Walls’ verse play documenting the problems facing people, particularly those with mental health problems, living on the streets. First performed as part of the York Theatre Royal’s Takeover Festival.
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How to be a Man
Alan Smith
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Frank, Jason, Bernard and Eve: friends caught up in petty crime, fine art, and dangerous partnerships. Is it ever too late to remake yourself, to paint yourself a brand new shiny life?
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Here in the Cull Valley
John Wheatcroft
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What goes through your head as time stands still in the seconds before you die? Journalist Teddy Beresford is about to find out. When he is killed on a notorious stretch of road, everyone assumes that it was an accident. The key to what really happened lies in Teddy's bizarre, newspaper-style diary.
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Lodestone
Hannah Stone
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Poems full of the tiny fallibilities of a writer immersed in history and theology, yet constantly charmed and distracted by the vagaries of nature and the follies of people.
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A Multitude of Things
David Cleg
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This collection of short plays, some performed, some new, is a selection of found moments, found poetry if you will, gathered from real live and placed in a new context.
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Unsettled Accounts
Tony Lucas
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Tony Lucas demonstrates his consistently luminous and observant poetry that encompasses change and yet recognises the stillness of people and the environment in which they live. He reminds us that we all have a span and living is a form of unfinished business.
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Learning to Breathe
John Gilham
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John Gilham offers a strong sense of the past forming a springboard for reflections on our present and future. He is the master of the lyrical. You know you have experienced something life changing and unique.
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Tales from a Prairie Journal
Rita Jerram
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Edith Jerram, Rita's grandmother, left her rural Derbyshire village in 1884 to join her fiancé in Canada. Edith’s journals graphically describe life on the Canadian prairies, documenting the hardships and heartbreak of rural living.
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The Problem with Beauty
Tanya Nightingale
Price £8.00
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From fractured fairy tales to a Chilean mine disaster; from Edwardian folk magic to earthquakes and war zones; Tanya transports us to different dimensions.
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The Ordinaryness of Parrots
Amina Alyal
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A long awaited first collection from the widely published Amina Alyal, who draws from history, art and everyday life to offer new perspectives on old themes, writing with wit and carefully controlled fire.
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New Crops from Old Fields
Ed. Oz Hardwick
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Eight Medieval scholars write contemporary poetry informed by their knowledge of medieval times and ideas but which are relevant to modern readers. All eight writers are well known as contemporary poets.
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Throwing Mother in the Skip
William Thirsk-Gaskill
Price £7.00
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With deadpan humour, and at times, with great sympathy, William Thirsk-Gaskill shows us what it's like to be the young son of a much older dad; reflects on life, love, marriage; and on who we are, what we discard, and who we become as time passes.
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Satires
Andy Humphrey
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Satires take a wry look at the politics of life, love and loss in austerity Britain. A pantomine rat sets out his election manifesto, the ghost of John Betjeman advises the estate agents of Milton Keynes, and a parade of frustrated poets confront the Big Society head-on with dreams of a better tomorrow
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Border 7
Pauline Kirk
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Jude is a skilled member of The Corporation's security force. Cracks are beginning to appear in the system and dissatisfaction is growing. In this world of subterfuge, traitors and spies, trusting the wrong person can be a death sentence.
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Homeless
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Poignant and shocking stories expressing the reality of being without a safe and dependable place to stay illustrating the horrors young people face day after day. Stories that make for absorbing, thought-provoking reading.
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The Geology of Desire
Clint Wastling
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David witnesses his ex and her boyfriend being pushed over the cliff at Whitby Abbey by a policeman he has known all his life.
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Homelands
Shaunna Harper
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Luke Kennedy and Seb, his only friend, travel to his hometown in midwest America, a trip that will force him to confront his past and face demons he thought he’d left behind.
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When the Crow Cries
Maxine Ridge
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What would you do if you found a doorway to another world? Breaking the barriers across time and space may be fun at first but the key to get back is lost and they can't get home until that moment When the Crow Cries.
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Close Disharmony
PJ Quinn
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In this third DI Ambrose novel, a famous close harmony choir visits Chalk Heath, tensions are rife. DI Paul Ambrose feels a sense of foreboding, but is powerless to prevent the murder of one of the singers.
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Somewhere Else
Don Walls
Price - £8.00
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That deep voice, wise and witty, urbane and erudite, willing to shock yet evoking the laughter that comes from recognised truth.
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Sometimes I Fly
Tim Goldthorpe
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The perception of a man viewing the world through a distorted lens. Limited by what he can do and where he can go, but freed to see things as they are, not as we would like them to be.
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Still Life with Wine and Cheese
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An anthology of writing about France and the French inspired by our love for our dearest cousins and the visit by the Tour de France to Yorkshire.
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Skydive
Andrew Brown
Price - £8.00
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Stories: by turns poignant, hilarious, spooky, edgy but always observant: this collection is a real treat.
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Chocolate Factory
Price - £7.00
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Chocolate Factory is a bittersweet assortment of short stories created by young writers between the ages of 11 - 18 on the theme of chocolate and human rights.
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Contact Stairwell Books for details of how to purchase this book.
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Wine Dark, Sea Blue
A. L. Michael
£10.00
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Wine Dark, Sea Blue is about being what people need you to be, and what happens when all those obligations start to blur. Do you keep the secrets, or do you break?
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Taking the Long Way Home
Steve Nash
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This book takes us into the uniquely thrilling world of Steve Nash. Steve's poems have been widely published, deservedly so. In these pages favourites and fresh new pieces are brought together into a single spine-chilling first collection illustrated with razor sharp perception.
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Her House
Donna Marie Merritt
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The author of the Poetry for Tough Times series (Avalon Press) offers a wider range of poems in this collection, celebrating life, nature, and love.
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Rosie and John’s Magical Adventure
Ryedale Schools
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A Magical tale of adventure written by 5-7 year old children from Ryedale District, North Yorkshire.
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Poison Pen
PJ Quinn
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This charming sequel to PJ Quinn’s first DI Ambrose Mystery, Poison Pen, takes Ambrose under cover at a writers’ retreat in Chalk Heath to determine the circumstances leading to a suspicious death on an Indian railway train.
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York:
poetry, artwork and photographs
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A collection of poems, artwork and photographs commissioned for the 800th anniversary of the City's charter.
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Pressed by Unseen Feet
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This anthology is a collection of poetry and short stories with a paranormal theme and explores the space our spirits KNOW is there, even though we cannot prove or disprove its existence.
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Scenes from the Seedy Underbelly of Suburbia
Jackie Simmons
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Enter the deceptively charming world of Small Town USA, where whisky is hidden behind the potted plants, and heroin is hidden in a messy room.
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Late Flowering
Michael Hildred
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Artist and poet Michael Hildred takes you on a Journey from wartime Britain to his own late flowering. This book is illustrated by the author with drawings integrated with the poems.
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Foul Play
PJ Quinn
Price - £9.00
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DI Ambrose is sent to investigate the murder of the leading lady at the bomb damaged Chalk Heath Theatre.
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Gringo on the Chickenbus
Tim Ellis
Price - £6.50
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A the poetic record of Tim and Robbie's adventures in South America. This volume is exquisitely illustrated by Robbie who is a fantastic artist.
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Along the Iron Veins
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This anthology of poetry, prose and pictures celebrates the essential nature of the railways in forming Victorian England
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The Green Man Awakes
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A short anthology of poems celebrating the legends of the Green Man, a forest manifestation celebrated by many cultures world wide
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Fosdyke and Me
and other Poems
John Gilham
Price - 7.00
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John Gilham shares his adventures with the mythical and somewhat hapless Fosdyke. This book includes some of John Gilham’s piercing work about the consequences of war on the community.
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A Day at the Races
N.E. David
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A gritty drama of deceit, determination and revenge played out on the Epsom Downs. We’ve all wondered what the lads do when they’re let out on their own...
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Feria
N.E. David
Price £6.00
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An uproarious comedy set in the heart of Spain involving three vats of paella, a marching band and a herd of mountain goats.
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Carol’s Christmas
N.E. David
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The heart warming tale of a father, a daughter, a pair of ice skates and a set of flashing lights.
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frisson
Price - £6.00
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An anthology of erotic poems from The Exhibitionists published to coincide with their Erotic Poetry Night at the 2010 York Literature Festival
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Running with Butterflies
John Walford
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John Walford's wry take on the human condition recording the world with the same sardonic eye that served so well as Wally the cartoonist.
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The Exhibitionists
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The anthology of poems that gave birth to The Exhibitionists, a team of writers and performers from The Spoken Word Open Mic that takes place at the Exhibition Hotel Conservatory in Bootham York
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A First Tuesday in Wilton
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An anthology of poems from Connecticut writers some whom are well known in the USA including the late Gus Stepp.
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