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    On The Road Again
    On The Road Again
    On The Road Again
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    On The Road Again

    By Stephen Brown

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    The next installment in the poetic life of Stephen Brown, On The Road Again is the sixth in the chronological series of his collections, containing the three short volumes Moving Again, Four Floors Up and Two Cities.
    Comprising sixty or so titles, Roads contains the usual eclectic mix, with lines lifted from such diverse locations as Paris, Oostend, a London flat and the North of England.
    The rap-style musings of Flotsam and Whiter Than White lie comfortably together with more structured songs such as Spinning, One Kiss, and Empty House Blues, all of which of course wrap snugly around the other entertaining verses like A Snail in Two Cities, Double Glazing and Questions That Smells Bring to Mind.
    Who says poetry is dead?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Brown
    Release dateMar 9, 2016
    ISBN9781310585524
    On The Road Again
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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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      On The Road Again - Stephen Brown

      ON THE ROAD AGAIN

      By Stephen Brown

      Copyright 2012 Stephen Brown

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      Contents

      Title Page

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Moving Again

      Four Floors Up

      Two Cities

      About the Author

      Other Works

      Chosen Charity

      Introduction

      ON THE ROAD AGAIN, the sixth in my series of anthologies, contains three more collections, Moving Again, Four Floors Up, and Two Cities. Beginning in Paris towards the end of 2005, the sixty or so titles to be found here cover around the next six months, the time in which I finally called it quits in Europe and basically just trolled about a bit trying to figure out what to do next. It was obvious I needed something new, something fresh, but what?

      From Paris to Ostend, Brighton to Barton, London to Lincoln to Leeds, ON THE ROAD AGAIN is not so much a road trip as a series of destinations, with massive lessons learned at every stop, and each one of them leading me ever-closer to my next big leap...

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      MOVING AGAIN

      Introduction

      It was December 2005. Still at my friends’ place, I’d become bored - bored, bored, bored - but now I was in Paris! With the World Championships for Arabian Horses over and done, I picked up my bag and wandered off, away from my friends, away from the Porte de Versailles and down into the city. Ahhh, this felt gooooood...

      I packed for three days and stayed ten, so it got pretty smelly for a while, but by the time I reluctantly peeled myself away from my hostel on the slopes of the butte du Montmatre, I knew my time in Morkhoven was done.

      Returning to Belgium, the first thing I did (after changing clothes) was to head off again, this time only as far as Ostend, to meet up with a couple I’d met during my Parisian sojourn. After that it was only a couple of weeks before I packed up my car and said an emotional goodbye...

      Poems

      One Bad Apple

      A Chipped Cup is Fine

      Raison d’Etre

      The Sugar Man

      Woodstock

      Meer Meisjes

      Irony

      Belgian Train

      Flotsam

      Edenbridge – My Idea of Hell

      Sprechen Jouw Quoi?

      These Big Dogs

      Restless Sleep

      Household Chores

      It’s Spring Again

      I’d Better Pull My Finger Out

      Beyond Two Generations

      A Dark Place

      Morkheaven is a Place On Earth

      ONE BAD APPLE

      Sitting in a cafe staring up onto le Sacré Cœur

      The coolest folk from 318 are not there any more

      Instead the beer-heads have arrived, oh my god what a bore

      To listen to them prattle on is really quite a chore

      It’s lit up,

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