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Our Stickleback series is a place that a poet can make a point within the confines of a micro pamphlet. Initially, available as a Limited Edition Print Run, these beautiful little collections are permanently available to all in PDF eBook form.
Stickleback XIV:
Elegies
by
Peter Francis Pegnall
Peter Pegnall seems determined to repeat himself, at least twice over.
At nine, he read a poem at the school bazaar, inveighed against hypocrisy at Christmas and was delighted at the astonished reception, as well as riven with fear. His latest volume will be launched at Norwich Cathedral, in an international festival. A harpist called Joy will accompany him. At sixty nine, he teaches Latin at Fakenham Academy, utters Juvenal and Catullus to astonished teenagers, who are delighted to show off their knowledge to their friends. He read English in Ireland, translates Gaelic lyrics into English; rowed the ferry at Sunbury on Thames when sixteen and has just inherited a kayak in Norfolk. Pneumonia at three, thirteen, twenty three, forty three, still counting, on one and a half lungs.
First love in Holland Park at fifteen, last love to be announced, posthumously. A son at zero, dad at twenty three, grandpa at fifty six and sixty. A stick of rock, he will not cease to spell out his name nor sell his wares.
The cellophane wrapper is intact, if crumpled.
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