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    Rhymes for No Reason
    Rhymes for No Reason
    Rhymes for No Reason
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    Rhymes for No Reason

    By Anton Wills-Eve

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    This small selection from the poems I have written in English in 2012 is aimed mainly at showing how the different styles of versification and rhyme, especially free or blank verse, have changed in the past year. What matters with the poems in this book is that the readers should imagine they are experiencing the stories, thoughts and ideas for themselves alone and not adhering rigidly to any particular metric pattern or established form. The fact that many of the samples are in fact stories is no coincidence. I find that doing a brief resume of a novel in verse first then makes it much easier to write the ensuing book. Indeed the novel I am currently writing, Locked in and Locked Out, is based largely on two of the poems in this selection. As this is the road down which modern poets are meandering more and more, I am happy to be with them on their pilgrimage as I hope my readers will be also.

    Anton Wills-Eve
    December 2012.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateJan 9, 2013
    ISBN9781479769063
    Rhymes for No Reason
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    Anton Wills-Eve

    Anton Wills-Eve has been a multi lingual correspondent for all the major news agencies, UPI, Reuters, AFP and AAP since leaving public school in London in 1960. He studied French history and literature at the Sorbonne in Paris and worked mainly at sports writing and as a war correspondent retiring in 1982 following a helicopter crash. He covered conflicts in North Africa, Indo China, and N.Ireland before getting a BA in philosophy and working as a translator. He is married with two sons and lives on the Wirral Peninsula in NW England. (Cover photo taken from author’s home).

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      Rhymes for No Reason - Anton Wills-Eve

      Copyright © 2013 by Anton Wills-Eve.

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      Contents

      Regret Observed

      On reading your letter

      Favela—a Brazilian Trilogy

      Canto 1—Two Lives

      Canto 2—Constanca Avenged

      Canto 3—Esposita

      Wheels of Fate

      A Random Kiss

      Faith’s Explanation

      The Silent Bullet

      Trees

      Absentminded

      Locked In

      The Promise

      A Waste of Time

      Remembrance Day

      Infinity

      Where’s Dane?

      Jess and Harry

      Presents

      Silence

      The Psychiatrist

      Dedication

      To

      G.A.L.

      Gracias Bonita

      T his small selection from the poems I have written in English in 2012 is aimed mainly at showing how the different styles of versification and rhyme, especially free or blank verse, have changed in the past year. What matters with the poems in this book is that the readers should imagine they are experiencing the stories, thoughts and ideas for themselves alone and not adhering rigidly to any particular metric pattern or established form. The fact that many of the samples are in fact stories is no coincidence. I find that doing a brief resume of a

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