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James Farson

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Born

in Peterborough, The United Kingdom

Website

http://ifearthosebigwords.wordpress.com

Twitter

jamesafarson

Genre

Poetry, Fiction

Member Since

August 2011

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/anxiolytic

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I wrote a couple of books once upon a time. Now I mostly read them. Likes modernist/experimental fiction, SFF, spy novels, mysteries. I even read a western once.

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Average rating: 4.8 · 5 ratings · 2 reviews · 2 distinct works

	More Poems About Cats and Teeth 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hole in the Sky and Other Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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As I write this, we’re facing down yet another unprecedented heatwave, and the Prime Minister has just resigned, again. Everything feels wrong. Kind of stuck. Gummed up. Things don’t work the way they should or they work to ends that are anti-social. A state of affairs can’t quite seem to wind down; nothing really new can happen. My partner told me the other day about a conversation she’d had on t

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