Trouble Came to the Turnip

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ISBN: 9781857548877 | 1857548876
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 4/1/2007

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Ferociously vital, savagely humorous, and self-mocking, this poetry collection focuses on a world that is inhabited by failed and successful relationships during the dizzying crisis of early adulthood, offering insight into the pleasures and pains of growing up.

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Trouble came to the turnip	p. 1
Virgin	p. 3
The money	p. 4
The world is not made for frogs	p. 5
Our lollipop lady	p. 6
This time last week	p. 7
An opera in one act	p. 12
Put your earmuffs on your eyes	p. 13
Love has arrived	p. 14
Shiny bin	p. 16
The softness of the morning	p. 17
Relationship dolls	p. 19
Wednesday	p. 20
The leprechaun thinks it matters	p. 21
A gentlewoman's pornography	p. 22
Good Friday outside Barcelona Cathedral	p. 24
My love made me a hat	p. 25
Sugar pot shakedown	p. 26
Shortfall of water	p. 28
Pumpkins	p. 29
Board-rubber dust	p. 30
Let the people starve	p. 32
Banana milk	p. 33
My lovely legless acrobat	p. 35
Mermaids in my coffee	p. 36
Mono	p. 37
The Choirboy brothers	p. 39
The fairy is bored with her garden	p. 41
Sunday	p. 42
Chant and be happy	p. 43
Christmas poem	p. 44
Talent to talent	p. 46
The plague	p. 47
Mope	p. 48
The lady with the lamp	p. 49
Distant dog	p. 53
And a touch of dried peppermint	p. 54
Moving on a midnight train	p. 55
Let's write another poem	p. 58
Blue water	p. 59
Clog	p. 60
It will come to pass	p. 61
Not like this	p. 63
Child bride	p. 64
War poem	p. 65
Old friends	p. 66
Facial	p. 67
Concert tour	p. 70
A seasonal surprise for Miss Pringle	p. 71
Meat	p. 73
This bar is full of octopuses	p. 74
Presents	p. 76
The mistress of the house	p. 77
Not a raindrop	p. 79
Mary-Jane	p. 80
Extracts from an archive recently discovered in a school wastepaper bin	p. 81
It's true	p. 82
Then	p. 84
Full house	p. 85
Where is all the mist?	p. 87
Ode to a cubicle	p. 89
I fell in love with a crooner	p. 90
City bed	p. 91
Chaining bikes to this girl is strictly prohibited	p. 92
A bewitchment to revive a lustreless relationship	p. 94
Remains	p. 95
You had a Latin lesson	p. 97
All things yellow	p. 98
A sunny day on Earth	p. 100
Ahhhhhhh	p. 101
Credits	p. 102
Bathtub spider	p. 105
Bread	p. 106
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