A Four-Letter Word
Published in July 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
48 pages
978-0-9933515-0-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume of my poetry is devoted to love. Love comes in many guises, from the love we have for a partner or parent, to the love we feel for our child. Or it may be the love we feel for a pet, or an animal's love for its owner or another animal. I make no bones about having a sweet tooth, so it may even be an overwhelming love for sweets or cake! Love can be pyrotechnical and urgent or something steadfast, quiet and strong. To love or be loved transforms us. The poem on the next page, for example, recounts the extraordinary events that occurred on the night my mother died. She loved owls and they came in droves to sit on the roof of the house and the surrounding farm buildings, hooting loudly. It was as if they had come to call her home. As John Lennon so rightly wrote: "And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make."
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
82 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9933515-0-1 (9780993351501)
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I am currently author of Caro Ness Author, a collection of poetry and prose and co-publisher of a highly successful food blog, Lover of Creating Flavours and alongside my wife run the hugely popular and well-received micro bistro La Petite Bouchee. Formerly, I have been a freelance editor, working for most of the London publishers, author and author's agent. I was Senior Commissioning Editor and formerly Managing Editor, Illustrated Division, Element Books. I was a freelance editorial, contracts and rights consultant. Commissioning Editor and Rights Manager, Liber Press. I did Maternity leave cover for the Rights Director, Virago Press. I spent 7 years with a leading literary agency dealing in fiction and non-fiction, representing the likes of Roald Dahl, Penelope Lively, J.M. Coetzee, Michael Morpurgo, Dame Jacqueline Wilson and Anne Fine. I have written 4 children's books, one of which won an award in the US, have translated one and have written three adult non-fiction titles, two for Dorling Kindersley and one for Frances Lincoln and Tuttle, USA. My books are published in 23 countries.