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    Songs From A Wooden House
    Songs From A Wooden House
    Songs From A Wooden House
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    Songs From A Wooden House

    By Stephen Brown

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    Songs From A Wooden House is a collection of more than forty poems which will provide both light-hearted amusement and thought-provoking distractions for people in all walks of life.
    With titles such as Love Is..., The Tribulations of a Hungry Buddhist Spider and Desert Island Vegetables, these poems can be read anywhere at any time, whether on a packed commuter train on your way to work or curled up with a glass of something before the fire late at night.
    Whether you like the utterly absurd Ice-cream Related Injuries or prefer to get lost in the deeper concepts talked about in poems such as Life, there will be something in Songs for all but the blackest of souls...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Brown
    Release dateFeb 4, 2016
    ISBN9781311338747
    Songs From A Wooden House
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    Stephen Brown

    Stephen Brown is Emeritus Professor of Learning Technologies and former Head of the School of Media and Communication at De Montfort University. He has been Senior Technology Adviser at the JISC Technologies Centre, Head of Distance Learning at BT, Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Engineering Design, and President of the Association for Learning Technology. He has also been a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and an Associate Member of the Institute for Ergonomics and Human Factors. Since 2005, he has been a registered European Commission research expert in the fields of Technology Enhanced Learning, Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage. He was a member of the AHRC Peer Review College for ten years.

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      Songs From A Wooden House - Stephen Brown

      SONGS FROM A WOODEN HOUSE

      By Stephen Brown

      Copyright 2012 Stephen Brown

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      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Table of Contents

      List of Poems

      Introduction

      Songs From a Wooden House

      About the Author

      Other Works

      Chosen Charity

      The Poems

      1. Are you sitting comfortably?

      2. Albert Small

      3. Oh feller of trees

      4. Interview on a birthday

      5. Sectioned

      6. Home video

      7. Love is…

      8. An Intruder

      9. Life

      10. Sunburn

      11. Lost

      12. The Tube – an alternative

      13. The Consulting detective

      14. Mad

      15. Passing the time

      16. Ancestors

      17. The perils of falling behind

      18. Cycles of life

      19. Chesterfield

      20. Existential thoughts

      21. Giraffe

      22. Tribulations of a hungry Buddhist spider

      23. A Traveller’s tale

      24. Desert island vegetables

      25. Inspiration

      26. Making the most of a bad situation

      27. Freedom

      28. The Big Smoke

      29. Unruly child

      30. The conductor

      31. Ice cream related injuries

      32. The gardener

      33. Warning

      34. The perfect couple

      35.

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