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    Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box
    Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box
    Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box
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    Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box

    By Annette Greenaway

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    Twenty eight poems about love, music, nature, travel, meditation and the end of the world. This dazzling debut collection manages to be both haunting and hilarious.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPhilistine Press
    Release dateSep 5, 2010
    ISBN9781458004277
    Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box
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    Annette Greenaway

    Annette Greenaway was born in Bristol in the 1970s. She discovered acid house at the age of seventeen, and danced for the next twenty years. She lives a much quieter life nowadays, but her neighbours occasionally spot her skipping around her living room in a pair of luminous dungarees. She is married and lives in London.

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      Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box - Annette Greenaway

      Big Fish Little Fish Cardboard Box

      By Annette Greenaway

      Published by Philistine Press at Smashwords

      Copyright 2010 Annette Greenaway

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      Contents

      Looking up

      As you sit

      Impressions of Hell

      Poem for a fridge

      My gran

      Some notes on the artistic representation of the end of the world

      Funny story

      Flowers

      Don’t do it, Ken

      Cowards

      A moment

      Tourist or terrorist

      Happiness

      The slimmest stream

      Accidental acupuncture

      You are my deadly sin

      Pathetic fallacy

      Searching for the perfect beat (with Gilles Peterson)

      A slow day

      My USP

      You, me and a billion people

      Collections

      A conversation

      Conditions

      Reading Dostoyevsky

      What fools

      Further notes on the artistic representation

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