This sweeping poetry collection charts John Moore’s experiences of travel and work in new places.
Planning sixteen countries across five continents, his poetry breathes life into the reality of living under extreme conditions. From minus fifty degrees in Canada to plus forty-seven in Australia, the collection brings sharp focus to the wonderous but often inhospitable world we call home.
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Author Bio
Windermere Lake
Snowdrops Above Lake Windermere
Poet’s Don’t Compete
Grassmere Lake
Bluebells
The Cottage
The Brockman Saw Pitts
Two Golden Beech Trees
Rydal Lake
Wave Rock Child
Skelghyll Wood
Visiting a Zoo
Skimpies
For Josie
The Prisoner Tree
Family and Working Away
Poem’s Why
Windmill
The Lake Windermere
Introspection
Fallow Times
For My Wife, Barbara (1948-2002)
Margret River
Eagle Feeding on Kangaroo (Fragment)
Camping Alone Under a Boab Tree
Weekend Camping
Australian Soldiers, Marching and Singing ‘Waltzing Matilda’
Crucible of Dreams
Jacaranda (Ode)
Penalty of the Working Man
Ladies Group
Burn’s Beach
On Tragic Loss of Many Lives
Frailty
Lover’s Sport
Daffodils
Rydal Lake
Thoughts
Lakes, 2000mm rain per year, and it comes down slowly – drizzle
Raw War
Alnwick, Northumberland
SHORT VERSES
Burns Reach
Exile
Birthdays
Reflection on Dissolution
Environment Lost
Five Continents
On Being Fortunate to Miss a Farewell (for an idiot)
The Elephant and the Shrew
Onshore After Four Weeks at Sea
Winters Fall
The Rose Way
Reconcile
Hamani – Japan’s Cherry Blossom Festival
Kaleidoscope
For Chris, Trevor’s Brother
Epoch
Marble Bar
Rollover x2
Saskatchewan River
Raw War 2
Liturgy for a Sacred Place
Quotations
Short Verse