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    Hope After the Fall: Selected Poems 2003-2015
    Hope After the Fall: Selected Poems 2003-2015
    Hope After the Fall: Selected Poems 2003-2015
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    Hope After the Fall: Selected Poems 2003-2015

    By Ben Fitch

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    Believing nihilism to be insupportable to a sober mind, I write poetry to resolve paradoxes; in thus envisaging harmony images are summoned from the natural world.
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    Release dateDec 29, 2016
    ISBN9781456627942
    Hope After the Fall: Selected Poems 2003-2015

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      Hope After the Fall - Ben Fitch

      Hope After the Fall

      Selected Poems 2003-2015

      by Ben Fitch

      Copyright 2016 Ben Fitch,

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      Table of Contents

      Part Nine (2015)

      Part Eight (2013)

      Part Seven (2011)

      Part Six (2011)

      Part Five (2010)

      Part Four (2010)

      Part Three (2006)

      Part Two (2004)

      Part One (2003)

      Preface

      Believing nihilism to be insupportable to a sober mind, I write poetry to resolve paradoxes; in thus envisaging harmony images are summoned from the natural world

      Part Nine (2015)

      Detritus of a banquet shelved

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