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	<description>a writer&#039;s notebook</description>
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		<title>Wait, the sun is out</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[there’s this poem I must write and
that novel of the station master
built from railway journals
and long forgotten tales told by]]></description>
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		<title>Winter Dippers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winter dippers

I heard no jingle at dawn
no bell or coin
no mournful sounds from the sea]]></description>
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		<title>Tino the Baker remembered&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Small Town Poet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Greystones]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small town life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tino Cassoni was the best baker of bread in our town.  His Irish soda bread was superb. Ah, how I loved to eat it warm, with butter melting on it. But his was a hard life.... ]]></description>
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		<title>Give us back our what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Small Town Poet</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Give us back our harbour’
is not a polite expression
nor it is new
or meaningful or hopeful.]]></description>
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		<title>Falling Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 18:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Small Town Poet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The red white and blue swans
decided to take off unexpectedly]]></description>
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		<title>In defence of creative writing classes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Small Town Poet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[on writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you defend creative writing sessions?
It is a question that the poet Richard Hugo addresses...]]></description>
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		<title>Best Remembered</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Small Town Poet</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Feathers stirred 
murmuring despair...
]]></description>
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		<title>Ted&#8217;s War and Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Small Town Poet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A war office letter warned his parents that Ted was missing in action in 1944 behind enemy lines.
“Don’t worry, about Ted,” his mother said. “If he fell into a sewer ted would come smelling of roses.” 
Repatriated by Australians two weeks after the crash, he was immediately promoted to the rank of Flight Lieutenant.]]></description>
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		<title>Sulphur</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Small Town Poet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[launches the mournful sound
of the sirens and the fears
begin marching again.
]]></description>
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		<title>Flight Forecast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Small Town Poet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weather man looks cloudy today
moist as the air drifting south
hands that shake from an arctic blast
and eyebrows covered in frost.]]></description>
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